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

[Kévin Le Gouguec]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> 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?

The trick is to add a trailing '/' to the filename before visiting it, I
think?  (The mnemonic being "open this as if it were a folder", IIUC)