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authorRomain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com>2006-05-15 08:52:17 +0000
committerRomain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com>2006-05-15 08:52:17 +0000
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downloademacs-3f8105a126ca4c3170f0edf339b58fa6662f986d.tar.gz
(dired-guess-shell-gnutar): On GNU and GNU/Linux
systems, default to "tar" since those systems probably have GNU tar.
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diff --git a/lisp/dired-x.el b/lisp/dired-x.el
index e207c60502d..0a467920f11 100644
--- a/lisp/dired-x.el
+++ b/lisp/dired-x.el
@@ -215,7 +215,9 @@ a directory. See also `dired-local-variables-file'."
:type 'boolean
:group 'dired-x)
-(defcustom dired-guess-shell-gnutar nil
+(defcustom dired-guess-shell-gnutar (when (or (eq system-type 'gnu)
+ (eq system-type 'gnu/linux))
+ "tar")
"*If non-nil, name of GNU tar executable.
\(E.g., \"tar\" or \"gtar\"). The `z' switch will be used with it for
compressed or gzip'ed tar files. If you don't have GNU tar, set this