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Add archive-visit-inner-file function

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Message #11 received at 78750 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: zonuexe <at> zonu.me
Cc: 78750 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#78750: Add archive-visit-inner-file function
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2025 12:11:44 +0300

Ping!  Kenta USAMI, would you please respond, so we could make further
progress with this issue?

> Cc: 78750 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2025 15:13:36 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> 
> > From: Kenta USAMI <zonuexe <at> zonu.me>
> > Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2025 02:18:42 +0900
> > 
> > Currently, a buffer for an archive file can be opened by selecting the
> > entry from archive-mode, but there is no way to access it from Lisp
> > without manually selecting the entry.
> > 
> > An API like archive-visit-inner-file, introduced in this patch, would be
> > useful to implement the ability to directly access an archive entry.
> 
> Thanks, sounds useful.  AFAIU, this will work with any archive
> supported by arc-mode.el?
> 
> > My use case is to be able to jump directly to classes and functions
> > defined in PHP scripts stored inside a Phar archive file.
> > 
> > - https://github.com/emacs-php/archive-phar.el
> > - https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.phar.php
> > 
> > I'm not hung up on the function names or detailed API of this patch.
> 
> Why do we need to have "inner" in the name?  Can we call this API
> archive-find-file instead?
> 
> Also, would you mind to add one or more tests for this API?
> 
> 
> 
> 

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