Vladimir Nikishkin <lockywolf@gmail.com> writes:

> What I do is I visit an archive, mark entries with `m', which adds an
> asterisk next to their name, and then type `e' or `f', expecting to be
> asked for a directory name to extract these files to.

I'm not quite sure why you'd expect that -- the doc string of these
commands say "In archive mode, extract this entry of the archive into
its own buffer."

In any case, in Emacs 28, there's a new `C' command that'll extract
archive members and write them to disk.  I've now adjusted the command
so that it'll respect the marked files.

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