Search doesn't recognize PK3 as ZIP

The behaviour described in the bug report is either by design, or would be far too complex/time-consuming to be changed

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Zom-B
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Search doesn't recognize PK3 as ZIP

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I love how I can freely navigate into PK3 files, change them and use them as any other ZIP file, but when searching for files or text-in-files, with the archive option on, it finds results in ZIP files, but not in identical PK3 files. PK3 files are by definition renamed ZIP files, so there should be no problem.

In: 8.51a for windows.
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Post by *Horst.Epp »

Add the foolowing line into your wincmd.ini
under the [Configuration] section:
SearchInFiles=*.pk3
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Post by *Zom-B »

Thanks, that works. But I still insist this should be default.
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Post by *MVV »

It would be too slow to detect all archive types by contents, especially with a lot of packer plugins.
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