Re: Suggestion: Make tar-mode activated in Emacs

[Stefan Monnier]

>>>>> "Peter" == Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca> writes:
> 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.

There's no need for such a thing.  You can simply install the .el and .elc
files and then run the update-file-autoloads to maintain a file
containing all the required elisp code to be loaded at init time.
Basically, your init directory is then replaced by a single file
that's automatically generated from the autoload cookies contained in the
.el files.

See the install.el package I posted recently to gnu.emacs.sources
for a rough idea about how it could work.


        Stefan