I know that vim can open files within zip or tar{,.gz} archives interactively: open the archive first, then navigate to the correct entry and press enter.

lesspipe (https://github.com/wofr06/lesspipe) (which is a preprocessor for less) provides the additional convenience of allowing one to directly input both the archive name and the name of the file within the archive at the same time (less foo.tgz:file-within-foo) (yes, I know, such a scheme leads, in theory, to issues with files containing colons in their names; in practice this is rare...). I was wondering if a similar ability was available (perhaps as a plugin) for vim.