--- a/doc/emacs/files.texi 2014-06-08 07:41:27 +0000 +++ b/doc/emacs/files.texi 2014-12-06 20:44:44 +0000 @@ -1689,6 +1689,14 @@ likewise. @kbd{v} extracts a file into a buffer in View mode another window, so you could edit the file and operate on the archive simultaneously. + The @kbd{I} key adds a new (regular) file to the archive. The file +is initially empty, but can readily be edited using the commands +above. The command inserts the new file on the line above the current +one, so that using it on the topmost line of the Tar buffer makes the +new file the first one in the archive, and using it on the last line +(the one after the line describing the last file) makes it the last +one. + @kbd{d} marks a file for deletion when you later use @kbd{x}, and @kbd{u} unmarks a file, as in Dired. @kbd{C} copies a file from the archive to disk and @kbd{R} renames a file within the archive.