Eli Zaretskii writes: >> In `archive-mode' I needed to get rid of optional argument `force', >> which was used to avoid somebody switching manually the mode > > That "somebody" is archive-maybe-update, which calls archive-mode > with the `force' argument non-nil. I don't see any changes in > archive-maybe-update to adjust for the loss of this feature. Yes, sorry, my fault to not check it (as i did for dired)! Correct patch attached. Cheers; Wojciech