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Document Emacs 26 behavior of Dired's 'Z' on directories

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* doc/emacs/dired.texi (Operating on Files): Document behavior
of 'Z' on directories.

* etc/NEWS: Belatedly announce the new behavior of Dired's 'Z'
on directory names and on .tar.gz archives.
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@ -768,9 +768,15 @@ suitable guess made using the variables @code{lpr-command} and
@item Z
Compress the specified files (@code{dired-do-compress}). If the file
appears to be a compressed file already, uncompress it instead. Each
marked file is compressed into its own archive. This uses the
marked file is compressed into its own archive; this uses the
@command{gzip} program if it is available, otherwise it uses
@command{compress}.
@command{compress}. On a directory name, this command produces a
compressed @file{.tar.gz} archive containing all of the directory's
files, by running the @command{tar} command with output piped to
@command{gzip}. To allow decompression of compressed directories,
typing @kbd{Z} on a @file{.tar.gz} or @file{.tgz} archive file unpacks
all the files in the archive into a directory whose name is the
archive name with the extension removed.
@findex dired-do-compress-to
@kindex c @r{(Dired)}

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etc/NEWS
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@ -51,6 +51,16 @@ often cause crashes. Set it to nil if you really need those fonts.
* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 26.2
** Dired
+++
*** The 'Z' command on a directory name compresses all of its files.
It produces a compressed '.tar.gz' archive with all the files in the
directory and all of its subdirectories. For symmetry, 'Z' on a
'.tar.gz' or a '.tgz' archive extracts all the archived files into a
directory whose name is the archive name sans the '.tar.gz' or '.tgz'
extension. (This change was actually made in Emacs 26.1, but was not
called out in its NEWS.)
** Ibuffer
---