From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: era+emacs@iki.fi, 20891@debbugs.gnu.org, stefan@marxist.se
Subject: bug#20891: emacs: Back off if .doc is not an Office document
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 10:55:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874kz6ok88.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83a78y96tf.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 14 Nov 2019 10:54:20 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
>> Cc: stefan@marxist.se, era+emacs@iki.fi, 20891@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2019 21:14:52 +0100
>>
>> since the Windows *.doc files are becoming rarer, perhaps that
>> means that doing doc-view only on files that have the magic bytes is
>> more important than it used to be
>
> Sorry, I don't follow that logic. I'd expect that *.doc MS Word files
> becoming rarer would mean plain-text *.doc files become relatively
> more important, i.e. the opposite conclusion. What did I miss?
That's what I'm saying. :-) Or at least I tried to. It's more
important to add magic byte recognition to doc-mode for .doc files now
than before.
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-24 11:19 bug#20891: emacs: Back off if .doc is not an Office document era+emacs
2019-08-01 20:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-06 1:53 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-06 13:08 ` era
2019-11-06 23:19 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-07 4:45 ` Richard Stallman
2019-11-07 8:29 ` era
2019-11-08 20:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-09 6:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-09 20:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-14 8:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-14 9:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2019-11-14 14:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-14 15:06 ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-14 16:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-14 16:33 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-11-14 16:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-15 7:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-15 8:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-15 8:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-15 9:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-15 13:20 ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-15 9:14 ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-15 7:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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