Subject: Re: bug#60896: dired-view-file vs. .7z

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2023 10:08:55 +0200

> From: Dan Jacobson <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked]
> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2023 15:13:48 +0800
> 
> Also maybe some message should be printed if no .gz or .7z handler is
> found. Same for the rest: .jpg etc.
> 
> Currently emacs just opens the file in fundamental mode.
> 
> Emacs should print a message that it looked for a handler but didn't
> find one.

Sorry, no.  That way lies madness: most of the files Emacs users visit
have no handlers.  Announcing we didn't find a handler will be a
terrible annoyance.