Comment by WorldMaker

Comment by WorldMaker 3 days ago

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ZIP can be a useful container for when you want a plaintext file with attachments, but you also want the full folder structure transportable itself as a single file. Automating zip/unzip operations isn't too bad, and you sometimes easily can teach some applications to work directly with zip container streams, without a temporary folder, too. Some existing text editors can do it naturally already; emacs and vim both have native support. Others have plugins available, like VSCode has ZipFS [1] (which is also on the backlog of possible things to support out of the box [2]).

[1] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=arcanis....

[2] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/75559