Re: address@hidden: dired-do-compress overwrites files without asking]

[Chong Yidong]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> Would someone please DTRT and ack?

I fixed this.

> From: Sven Joachim <address@hidden>
> Subject: dired-do-compress overwrites files without asking
>
> In Dired, if both an uncompressed file (say foo) and a compressed
> version of it (foo.gz) exist, typing 'Z' (dired-do-compress) with
> point at the 'foo' file has the dangerous effect of overwriting
> 'foo.gz' without asking.  OTOH, typing 'Z' with point at 'foo.gz'
> fails to uncompress the file, displaying an error message by gunzip.