bug#541: Trouble getting archive files to load

[Jason Rumney]

tags 541 wontfix
thanks

Davin Pearson wrote:

> Running Emacs with -Q and -q and executing the following code:
> 
> (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist
> '("\\.\\(arc\\|zip\\|tar\\|gz\\|lzh\\|zoo\\)\\'" . archive-mode))
> 
> gives the following error when I try to load a *.tar or *.tar.gz file:
> 
> File mode specification error: (error "Buffer format not recognized")

Archive mode is not supposed to handle those formats. gz is handled by
jka-compr, which is enabled by default, and tar is handled by tar-mode,
also enabled by default. archive-mode is enabled by default for .arc,
.zip, .lzh and .zoo files as well as other formats, so removing that
line from your .emacs should make things work as desired.