From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>, joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: using libmagic in Emacs?
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:36:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvmy5nre9n.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1MflS6-0004Ky-JY@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:08:02 -0400")
> If some other Lisp code is interested in the mime type of a file,
> there is a much easier way to find it out: run `file'.
Actually, running `file' might be a useful fallback (especially if run
via process-file so it also works on remote files, contrary to
libmagic).
Also, looking at the way the magic database works, it seems that we
might want to run `file-type-by-magic' on a buffer's content as well.
As for Miles's suggestion to interpret the magic file directly, I think
it's a bad idea: let's not reinvent the wheel, the code that parses this
database and uses it already exists, it's in libmagic, so we should just
use it.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-25 17:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 119+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-18 18:35 using libmagic in Emacs? joakim
2009-08-18 19:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-18 20:01 ` Chong Yidong
2009-08-18 20:35 ` joakim
2009-08-18 21:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-19 2:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-19 3:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-19 13:47 ` Chong Yidong
2009-08-19 15:57 ` joakim
2009-08-19 19:46 ` next bugfix release? [was: Re: using libmagic in Emacs?] Dan Nicolaescu
2009-08-19 21:06 ` next bugfix release? Chong Yidong
2009-08-19 21:53 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-08-19 22:56 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-08-19 23:16 ` Nick Roberts
2009-08-20 9:02 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-20 11:19 ` Eric M. Ludlam
2009-08-20 15:13 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-08-20 15:47 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-19 19:05 ` installing features on trunk (was: using libmagic in Emacs?) Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-21 18:59 ` Bidi support Stefan Monnier
2009-08-21 20:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-22 3:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-22 8:18 ` Jason Rumney
2009-08-22 5:39 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-08-22 7:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-24 1:45 ` Kenichi Handa
2009-08-24 3:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-24 7:17 ` Kenichi Handa
2009-08-24 3:25 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-08-19 0:57 ` using libmagic in Emacs? Juri Linkov
2009-08-20 3:42 ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-22 23:36 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-24 0:07 ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-24 0:17 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-24 7:33 ` joakim
2009-08-25 2:08 ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-25 2:19 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-25 5:09 ` joakim
2009-08-25 13:27 ` James Cloos
2009-08-25 21:41 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2009-08-25 17:36 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-08-25 20:37 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-29 23:19 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-30 3:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-30 20:54 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-31 2:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-31 16:17 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-31 17:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-01 12:16 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-01 16:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-01 21:20 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-03 19:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-04 7:52 ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-31 22:21 ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-31 3:33 ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-31 15:03 ` Chong Yidong
2009-08-31 16:19 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-31 23:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-01 3:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-01 5:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-01 12:16 ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-25 20:36 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-19 22:49 ` joakim
2009-08-19 23:20 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-08-20 1:03 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-08-20 3:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-20 4:50 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-08-20 18:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-21 0:19 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-08-20 18:32 ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-21 19:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-22 5:03 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-08-23 1:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-20 13:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-20 19:19 ` joakim
2009-08-20 22:08 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-08-21 9:55 ` joakim
2009-08-21 11:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-21 17:38 ` joakim
2009-08-21 17:46 ` Rupert Swarbrick
2009-08-21 18:31 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-08-21 19:13 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-21 18:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-21 21:48 ` joakim
2009-08-21 22:46 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-08-22 20:18 ` joakim
2009-08-22 23:13 ` Ken Raeburn
2009-08-23 23:38 ` joakim
2009-08-24 3:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-24 12:30 ` joakim
2009-08-23 3:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-21 19:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-21 13:19 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-08-20 18:32 ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-20 20:27 ` Reiner Steib
2009-08-21 14:08 ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-21 19:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-28 0:27 ` Language identification (was: using libmagic in Emacs) Juri Linkov
2009-08-28 4:58 ` Language identification Stefan Monnier
2009-08-28 9:00 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-08-28 14:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-29 4:11 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-08-29 14:21 ` Chong Yidong
2009-08-29 0:46 ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-29 4:13 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-08-29 15:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-29 16:27 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-08-28 19:16 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-29 1:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-30 16:01 ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-29 20:20 ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-29 22:48 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-31 3:32 ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-31 8:42 ` David Kastrup
2009-08-31 8:59 ` Jan D.
2009-08-31 3:33 ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-28 6:45 ` Alex Ott
2009-08-28 6:46 ` Alex Ott
2009-08-28 19:08 ` Juri Linkov
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