Does Finder search compressed folders?

[HoosierRon]

If I compress a folder (that is in Dropbox), will Finder still search the text of the documents?

How big of a deal is it to open a doc in a compressed folder, and then re-compress it?

[haravikk]

How are you compressing your drop-box folder(s)? If you mean right-clicking and compressing in Finder?

Spotlight does have an Archives.mdimporter plugin in /System/Spotlight, however most Spotlight plugins are heavily restricted in terms of how long they will spend on each file when indexing them (so really big files may only be indexed superficially).