From 2f3c574efe47f43aa25c0b1fccf94f22ee7b9fad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mivanit <mivanits@umich.edu>
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2023 20:29:24 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] added info about how to associate other file types to readme

its possible to use this extension to open files with other extensions that are actually just zip files, but this information is not obvious and [buried in the issues](https://github.com/stef-levesque/vscode-zipexplorer/issues/1#issuecomment-328523137)
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 README.md | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 92510e4..bb438b5 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -18,6 +18,17 @@ Display the content of a Zip file in a Tree Explorer
 2. Select `Extract Element`
 3. Specify the path where to extract
 
+### Other Files
+
+To have the `Explore Zip File` menu show up for other filetypes, you can associate those extensions with `zip` in your VSCode config json:
+```
+"files.associations": {
+  "*.egg": "zip",
+  "*.apk": "zip",
+  "*.your_extension": "zip"
+}
+```
+
 ## Requirements
 
 Visual Studio Code v1.13.0