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When using dired and I see a .tar.xz file I can visit this file in other window (<mouse-1>) and the file is a browsable tar archive.

How do I get .tbz2 files to behave in the same way?

I am using emacs versions 25 and 27

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  • look at varaiables dired-compress-file-suffixes and dired-compress-files-alist in file dired-aux.el then define your own custom suffix \\.tbz2\\' Commented Oct 20, 2020 at 20:18
  • Emacs 26 (and 28.0.50, so I presume 27 as well) recognized .tbz2 as a suffix for a bz2-compressed tar archive and does the right thing. That's with -Q so it should the case generally. Not sure about 25. Commented Oct 20, 2020 at 20:28
  • @NickD - dired-compress-file-suffixes does not have .tbz2 in so how does it work? Commented Oct 25, 2020 at 15:15

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