From 477414ac38399a63fd69f3b2457f5716a02b3eae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2018 21:05:14 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Improve documentation of 'dired-do-compress' * lisp/dired-aux.el (dired-do-compress): Describe in the doc string the effect on directories and on compressed archive. (Bug#33450) --- lisp/dired-aux.el | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lisp/dired-aux.el b/lisp/dired-aux.el index eaf5f257012..2800bbe9021 100644 --- a/lisp/dired-aux.el +++ b/lisp/dired-aux.el @@ -1225,7 +1225,12 @@ return t; if SYM is q or ESC, return nil." ;;;###autoload (defun dired-do-compress (&optional arg) - "Compress or uncompress marked (or next ARG) files." + "Compress or uncompress marked (or next ARG) files. +If invoked on a directory, compress all of the files in +the directory and all of its subdirectories, recursively, +into a .tar.gz archive. +If invoked on a .tar.gz or a .tgz or a .zip or a .7z archive, +uncompress and unpack all the files in the archive." (interactive "P") (dired-map-over-marks-check #'dired-compress arg 'compress t)) -- 2.39.5