tar-mode on auto-mode-alist

Jeff> lisp/files.el (defvar auto-mode-alist '(... ("\\.tar\\'" . tar-mode) I suspect this should go away, since tar-mode should do its own update via auto-autoloads. In fact, maybe lisp/files.el should do (defvar auto-mode-alist nil ...) Jeff> Perhaps this should be replaced with one pattern that Jeff> matches .tar, .taz, and .tgz? The last two cannot work without jka-compr, which some people do not have in their environment because it can't be made buffer-local. -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."