From: Gareth Rees <gareth.rees@pobox.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: bug#4298: .egg files could open in archive-mode by default
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:58:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CD4BA927-CFCA-45D0-8208-2697477DD22E@pobox.com> (raw)
Python modules are often distributed as files with the extension
".egg". These are just ZIP files with a convention about the layout of
the contents, as described in [1].
It would be nice if Emacs could open these files in archive-mode by
default, either by adding an entry for the file extension ".egg" to
auto-mode-alist, or by adding a suitable pattern for ZIP files to
magic-fallback-mode-alist.
(Perhaps this suggestion will become moot when libmagic is integrated
into Emacs.)
[1] "The Internal Structure of Python Eggs"; http://svn.python.org/projects/sandbox/trunk/setuptools/doc/formats.txt
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Gareth Rees
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2009-08-31 14:58 ` Gareth Rees [this message]
2009-08-31 19:02 ` bug#4298: .egg files could open in archive-mode by default Juri Linkov
2009-08-31 20:14 ` Gareth Rees
2009-09-01 19:40 ` bug#4298: marked as done (.egg files could open in archive-mode by default) Emacs bug Tracking System
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