Re: in dired hit v on a .zip archive

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Dan Jacobson wrote:
 > Well, what is it going to be for all of these, yoo hoo, oh father of
 > free software? Strict RET and v divided, like Kevin wants, or v=RET
 > muddled, like I seem to maybe still want?

Here's what RMS wrote to me regarding my patch:

| This change would not achieve its aim.  view-file on a Dired buffer
| does nothing except switch-to-buffer, because Dired mode is a special
| mode:
|
|   (interactive "fView file: ")
|   (unless (file-exists-p file) (error "%s does not exist" file))
|   (let ((had-a-buf (get-file-buffer file))
| 	  (buffer (find-file-noselect file)))
|     (if (eq (with-current-buffer buffer
| 		(get major-mode 'mode-class))
| 	      'special)
| 	  (progn
| 	    (switch-to-buffer buffer)
| 	    (message "Not using View mode because the major mode is special"))
|
| This recognizes that using view-mode on a directory listing is not
| very useful.  The code should do what it does now.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers