tar mode and undo

[Frederik Fouvry]

Symptoms:

When editing files in tar-mode, I am asked frequently (e.g. when
deleting big files from the archive) about undo information.  Perhaps
querying should be switched off for tar-mode?


In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.16 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2005-03-07 on cc.at.coli.uni-sb.de
Distributor `The XFree86 Project, Inc', version 11.0.40201000
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: POSIX
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: address@hidden
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: 
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Text

Minor modes in effect:
  auto-image-file-mode: t
  desktop-save-mode: t
  global-auto-revert-mode: t
  iswitchb-mode: t
  which-function-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  recentf-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  auto-insert-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <escape> 
< <escape> > C-c C-c x <f8> <f8> <f8> C-c r <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <up> <up> <down> <next> <next> <next> <next> 
<next> <next> <escape> < <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <up> <down> <next> <next> <next> 
<next> <escape> > <escape> < d <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <up> n s y q <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> <report-emacs-b
ug>

Recent messages:
Formatting MIME message... done
Mark set [3 times]
No following nondeleted message
Erase deleted messages from Rmail file? (y or n) 
Expunging deleted messages...done
Saving file /home/HU/fouvry/mail/RMAIL...
Wrote /home/HU/fouvry/mail/RMAIL
Expunging deleted messages...done
(No changes need to be saved)
Loading emacsbug...done