Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, in principle (like compressed files), but please don't mess with > that now. > > I tend to agree it is better to recognize these by filenames. That is > because there is a very strong convention to use those filenames for > these files. People won't, and shouldn't, expect Emacs to treat > something as a ZIP file if it doesn't have the right file name.
I disagree. While we might not want to mess with this before release, the file extensions used for zip files are multiplying, and I don't think we should expect users to know that a file with the extension .xpi, .jar, .ear, .war or whatever else comes in future (are Open Office files also zip files?) is actually a zip file so they can set Emacs up to recognize it correctly. I don't think we can guess all the extensions that developers will use for zip archives with specific meaning to their program. _______________________________________________ Emacs-pretest-bug mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
