How can I open a file with a non-zip extension as a zip file in emacs?

Open the file, then type M-: (archive-mode) If you're doing this a lot, then you might want to create a command to do it (because archive-mode isn't a command. Comments in the function say: ;; This is not interactive because you shouldn't be turning this ;; mode on and off. You can corrupt things that way.

But you could easily advise it to make it interactive: (defadvice archive-mode (before archive-mode-interactive activate) "Make this interactive" (interactive)) At which point you can now do M-x archive-mode.

Thanks. That works perfectly. – Chris R Sep 17 '09 at 16:21.

If you want a more permanent solution, I do something like this in my . Emacs: ;; Use archive mode to open Python eggs (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\. Egg\\'" .

Archive-mode)) (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\. Odp\\'" . Archive-mode)) (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.

Otp\\'" . Archive-mode)) ;; also for . Xo files (zip) (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.

Xo\\'" . Archive-mode)).

True that, I didn't read the question closely enough (I missed the whole "other extensions" line. – Trey Jackson Sep 17 '09 at 18:35.

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