From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: using libmagic in Emacs? Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:03:24 +0900 Message-ID: <87hbw35mar.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1250729661 31324 80.91.229.12 (20 Aug 2009 00:54:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:54:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , Emacs Development To: joakim@verona.se Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 20 02:54:13 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mdvuv-0002hP-H1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:54:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41763 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mdvuv-00061S-8Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:54:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MdvuC-0005kx-5c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:53:28 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mdvu7-0005jJ-F9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:53:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36030 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mdvu7-0005jG-BH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:53:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:60155) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mdvu6-00069M-JD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:53:22 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEB478213; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:53:19 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C0630126E40; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:03:24 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12-devo-585 under 21.5 (beta29) "garbanzo" 891381effa11+ XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:114422 Archived-At: joakim@verona.se writes: > - We can probably have much fun debating what the interface should look > like at the lisp level. Any ideas? I think the main interface should be just "file-magic", even if it's not in file.el. It's analogous to "file-attributes", etc. "file-magic-file" sounds like it returns the magic file (file*s* possible?) used.