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

[Ivan Shmakov]

>>>>> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

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 >> + ;; omit tar-header-checksum (tar-chk-offset) for now

 > Please capitalize and punctuate your comments.

        Even the one-line ones?

        Given that I have some time to improve this patch, could someone
        please suggest a good place to add a menu entry for
        tar-new-entry in tar-mode-map?  (I never use Emacs’ menus
        myself, so I’m rather clueless on this.)

        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.)

        I’ll also write a proper docstring for tar-header-serialize, so
        to make it clear this function is part of the module’s external
        interface.

PS.  you know you may be a mathematician if your sentences start with a
        lower-case letter and end with a semicolon;

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