Re: Suggestion: Make tar-mode activated in Emacs

[Peter S Galbraith]

David Masterson wrote:

> >>>>> "Richard" == Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> > When the user has an init file, the init file should be able to
> > control whether these files are used.
> 
> By "init file", I assume you mean site-start.el, .emacs, and
> default.el.

In Debian, the `init' is a directory in which you put any file
you want loaded by Emacs.  This allows packaged Emacs add-ons to
set themselves up without package management editing
site-start.el, .emacs, or default.el.  The packags instead
install a file under the init directory.  It's cleaner.

Peter