assume I have a tar ball containing muliple files and I don't want to uncompress everything in a folder to start my search (since vim can open compressed/tar.ed files on the fly), is there way to search a keyword through all the files in the tarball?

this involves 3 possible solution as I can think of per my limited knowledge:

1) search everything "on the fly" , this is what I'm asking for, might not be possible -- those files have not even been opened as a buffer...

2) open from vim everything single files in the tar ball that I want to search in, then use bufdo? still I don't know of a convenient way of doing this...

3) of course, if I uncompress everything in a folder, that will be easier -- external recursive grep can do that I think,

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