From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: using libmagic in Emacs? Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:42:07 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87ocqco7fi.fsf@mail.jurta.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1250739747 18391 80.91.229.12 (20 Aug 2009 03:42:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:42:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 20 05:42:20 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 1MdyXb-0008Lb-OI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:42:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59671 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MdyXb-00046o-95 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:42:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MdyXV-00046Z-St for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:42:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MdyXR-000455-1K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:42:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55392 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MdyXQ-000450-Tg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:42:08 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:36656) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MdyXQ-0006xa-MS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:42:08 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1MdyXP-00016h-D5; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:42:07 -0400 In-reply-to: <87ocqco7fi.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:57:21 +0300) 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:114429 Archived-At: >> For instance, in "image.el" there is functionality to look at magic >> numbers in image files. image.el doesn't recognize some rare JPEG formats, so libmagic will be useful here. Extending image.el mightbe a lot easier than other solutions.