From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: era+emacs@iki.fi, 20891@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20891: emacs: Back off if .doc is not an Office document
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 02:53:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pni54vou.fsf@marxist.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875zngd2v4.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Thu, 01 Aug 2019 22:53:19 +0200")
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> 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?
I wasn't aware of the practice to name plain text files *.doc; I can't
remember having encountered any file like that. Perhaps this practice
is rare.
Would implementing this risk make opening *.doc files slower for most
users? Perhaps that could make the trade-off not worth it. Other
than that, I see no problem with the proposal.
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-06 1:53 UTC|newest]
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 [this message]
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
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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