Bug#442865: vim: add support for ar/deb file browsing

[James Vega]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 04:07:23PM +0200, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote:
> vim supports several input file filters to open zip files, tar files etc.
> Unfortunately it does not support .ar (and so .deb) files. I know that its not
> so that someone often edits files inside of .deb or .ar files, but it would be
> a plus if it would be possible. So i consider this a wishlist item with low priority
> and probably +upstream.

This sort of functionality is generally provided by someone willing to
maintain such a plugin and keep in touch with Bram for getting updated
versions into the Vim distribution (or simply publish it independently
on vim.org).  The gzip/bzip plugin is the only one maintained by Bram.

I'll leave this bug open in case someone would like to step forward and
write such a plugin, but I don't have the time to write and maintain
one.

James
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