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Asked: 2026-05-12T14:05:25+00:00

I’d like to be able to open files with extensions other that .zip that

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I’d like to be able to open files with extensions other that .zip that have zip contents using Emacs’ built-in zip file support. Is this possible? If so, how?

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    Open the file, then type

    M-: (archive-mode)

    If you’re doing this a lot, then you might want to create a command to do it (because archive-mode isn’t a command. Comments in the function say:

    ;; This is not interactive because you shouldn't be turning this
;; mode on and off.  You can corrupt things that way.

    But you could easily advise it to make it interactive:

    (defadvice archive-mode (before archive-mode-interactive activate)
  "Make this interactive"
  (interactive))

    At which point you can now do M-x archive-mode.

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