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There exist several file formats that are built around zip or rar containers, e.g. .epub, .cbz, .cbr and OpenOffice files. It would be great if there exists a special additional command to open them as archives to extract or add files. Of course this should not interfere with the ordinary open command which launches the standard program for these extensions.

Regards,
Daniel Dittmar

Options -> Configuration -> Archivers => Archives Association in Panels

Wouldn't that work?
Add CBZ & associate that with RAR (or whatever the case may be).
Or append CBZ onto the existing line: rar;r##, so rar;r##;cbz.

Unfortunately this is not really the solution as it alters AS's default action on the file (i.e. the action taken when hitting enter on the file). Imagine to add EXE to the list in order to be able to browse selfextractabe archives.
There should be some means of browsing archives similar to the way one can extract them by choosing an unarchiver with Alt-F9 Files | Unpack...

I use the zip plugin on almost everything that is a zip archive, like .docx. The problem not being able to open it any more is being worked around using right-click + Open. Not optimal, but doable.

The planned feature of Ctrl+PgDn (and archive format auto-detecting, as with viewers) should resolve this. You should be able to find some more about it within the results of search for ctrl pgdn.

Until that, I usually work around the issue by temporarily renaming the file to have the needed extension. Also note that Unpack command works on any file, regardless of association, you just have to choose the correct unpacker.