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feature request: correctly display single file zip archive

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Message #39 received at 1702 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: xah <at> xahlee.org, matthew <at> mattleach.net, cyd <at> stupidchicken.com,
 1702 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#1702: [PATCH]: feature request: correctly display single file
 zip	archive
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 21:58:17 +0200

> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  xah <at> xahlee.org,  1702 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  cyd <at> stupidchicken.com
> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 20:51:36 +0100
> 
> Matthew Leach <matthew <at> mattleach.net> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> If it were possible to edit files inside archives, that would be great.
> But that's a pretty major undertaking, I think.

Maybe so, but that undertaking was already made many years ago:
arc-mode.el does support editing files in archives.

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