GNU bug report logs - #19274
tar-mode.el: allow for adding new archive members

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ivan Shmakov <ivan <at> siamics.net>

Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 21:19:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch

Fixed in version 25.1

Done: Ivan Shmakov <ivan <at> siamics.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: 19274 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19274: tar-mode.el: allow for adding new archive members
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 00:09:56 -0500

>>> + ;; omit tar-header-checksum (tar-chk-offset) for now
>> Please capitalize and punctuate your comments.
> 	Even the one-line ones?

Yes, we do that for all comments, since this poor little sentence would
feel disrespected otherwise.

> 	BTW, I wonder if it makes sense to split the make-tar-header
> 	form (with all the nil’s there) off tar-new-entry into a new
> 	(tar-new-regular-file-header filename &optional size time)
> 	function?  I guess that’d ease the creation of Tar archives from
> 	Emacs Lisp code; (and I already imagine some uses to that.)

BTW, if you're interested in hacking on tar-mode, I keep dreaming of
plugging it into file-name-handler-alist so you can just visit
/foo/bar.tar.gz/somefile, use dired on it, ...


        Stefan
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