Can Emacs be used to browse a cpio archive?
I've tried to open a cpio file in Emacs in Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid), but it simply shows me its content as is, not allowing to browse it as a directory of files.
(Actually, I wanted to browse the initrd.img, which is a compressed cpio archive.)
Probably, a cpio-mode is not yet among the standard set of modes. Cf.:
dated as follows:
From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Proposal: cpio-mode
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 16:42:45 -0400
Stefan also suggests some code there:
PS: For what it's worth, here's my earlier attempt at such a thing.
