bug#25076: 24.5; Enhancement request: Make `archive-mode' more Dired like (sorting etc.)

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:

> The clean solution would be to add a file name handler for
> archives. Several primitive functions need to be implemented; one of
> them would be `insert-directory’.

I see that Tramp has support for archives on systems with GVFS (Gnome
stuff).  I'm running on a Gnome system, so I expected this to just work,
but...  opening a zip file opens it in archive-mode.  I read the manual
section on this, but it doesn't seem to say what's needed for this to
work?

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