Redbean is an insanely cool ball of hacks that result in a single binary webserver that is fast, contains a dynamic language interpreter (Lua), and can serve files out of itself by acting like a zip file. Mind blowing.
Unfortunately Emacs' archive-mode, which allows you to manipulate the files in a zip as if it were a filesystem tree doesn't know how to open redbean files.
Here's a quick hack to enable this:
- Download redbean
curl https://redbean.dev/redbean-latest.com >redbean.com - Open in Emacs
emacs ./redbean.com - Try to force archive mode:
M-: (archive-mode) RET-> breaks M-x find-function RET archive-mode RET- Edit archive-mode:
(defun archive-mode (&optional force)
"Major mode for viewing an archive file in a dired-like way.
You can move around using the usual cursor motion commands.
Letters no longer insert themselves.\\<archive-mode-map>
Type \\[archive-extract] to pull a file out of the archive and into its own buffer;
or click mouse-2 on the file's line in the archive mode buffer.
If you edit a sub-file of this archive (as with the \\[archive-extract] command) and
save it, the contents of that buffer will be saved back into the
archive.
\\{archive-mode-map}"
;; This is not interactive because you shouldn't be turning this
;; mode on and off. You can corrupt things that way.
(if (zerop (buffer-size))
;; At present we cannot create archives from scratch
(funcall (or (default-value 'major-mode) #'fundamental-mode))
(if (and (not force) archive-files) nil
(kill-all-local-variables)
(let* ((type (archive-find-type)) <--- HERE
(typename (capitalize (symbol-name type))))
(setq-local archive-subtype type)
...
- Change line
<--- HEREto(let* ((type 'zip) M-x eval-defun RET- Open redbean.com buffer
M-: (archive-mode) RET
This should open a dired-style buffer and let you visit and modify any file in the redbean.
Don't forget to undo your changes to archive-mode when you're done.
Have fun!