Subject: Re: bug#1702: [PATCH]: feature request: correctly display single file zip archive

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 22:25:13 +0200

> From: Matthew Leach <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 20:03:32 +0000
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> >> From: Matthew Leach <[email-masked]>
> >> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> >> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 19:26:13 +0000
> >> 
> >> I think the advantage gained here is transparent editing of compressed
> >> files, like how Emacs can read .el.gz files without having to manually
> >> decompress them first.
> >
> > This won't work without a suitable change to jka-compr.el.
> 
> Could you please elaborate on what kind of change would be needed?

Do we want to disable decompression when auto-compression-mode is off,
for example?  (I was mistaken: the change to do that needs to be done
in arc-mode.el itself, because it bypasses jka-compr.)