From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#20891: emacs: Back off if .doc is not an Office document Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 22:53:19 +0200 Message-ID: <875zngd2v4.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> References: <1435144758.2326415.306422097.2EE346E7@webmail.messagingengine.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="234563"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 20891@debbugs.gnu.org To: era+emacs@iki.fi Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 01 22:54:17 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1htI5Z-000ytd-2d for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Aug 2019 22:54:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59170 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1htI5Y-0007vr-2s for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Aug 2019 16:54:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45547) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1htI5O-0007vi-7a for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Aug 2019 16:54:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1htI5M-0004wD-4m for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Aug 2019 16:54:05 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:46674) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1htI5K-0004ub-6n for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Aug 2019 16:54:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1htI5K-00074l-2k for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Aug 2019 16:54:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 20:54:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 20891 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 20891-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B20891.156469281027162 (code B ref 20891); Thu, 01 Aug 2019 20:54:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 20891) by debbugs.gnu.org; 1 Aug 2019 20:53:30 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55495 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1htI4m-00073z-JA for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 01 Aug 2019 16:53:28 -0400 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]:46396) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1htI4h-00073n-P6 for 20891@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 01 Aug 2019 16:53:24 -0400 Original-Received: from 77.18.62.220.tmi.telenormobil.no ([77.18.62.220] helo=sandy) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1htI4d-0003qa-N7; Thu, 01 Aug 2019 22:53:22 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1435144758.2326415.306422097.2EE346E7@webmail.messagingengine.com> (era's message of "Wed, 24 Jun 2015 14:19:18 +0300") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:164280 Archived-At: era+emacs@iki.fi writes: > It is not uncommon for *.doc files to contain plain ASCII text. In this > case, the default behavior of Emacs is less than ideal, as described in > more detail in the problem report below. Perhaps the .doc file name > mapping should contain some additional heuristics, and fall back to > plain text if the file is not an Office document. (I'm going through old bug reports that have unfortunately not gotten any responses.) I think this makes sense. A fix in Emacs would mean moving the .doc recognition from `auto-mode-alist' to... `magic-fallback-mode-alist', I guess. According to the interwebs, the magic sequence for Word .doc files is: D0 CF 11 E0 A1 B1 1A E1 Does anybody have an opinion here? -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no