From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: "Text is read-only"... except it isn't... or shouldn't be Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 10:28:55 +0300 Message-ID: <83vc6k66rs.fsf@gnu.org> References: <5190B6C2.3060801@mousecar.com> <83y5bi97sp.fsf@gnu.org> <51911A2B.6070100@mousecar.com> <83r4ha959c.fsf@gnu.org> <5191A2BA.7080108@mousecar.com> <83bo8e83ef.fsf@gnu.org> <6DBF2725-3120-4A0D-A23B-C1C16CA8AF22@Web.DE> <51922C68.1030700@mousecar.com> <8338tp8yuu.fsf@gnu.org> <5192A11F.1080003@mousecar.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1368602970 10778 80.91.229.3 (15 May 2013 07:29:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 07:29:30 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 15 09:29:28 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UcW9O-0002RP-Tk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 May 2013 09:29:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42156 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UcW9O-0008Li-G7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 May 2013 03:29:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:39783) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UcW99-0008HV-44 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 May 2013 03:29:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UcW98-0005GT-3G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 May 2013 03:29:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:52440) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UcW97-0005GK-OT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 May 2013 03:29:09 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MMT00E00WQYJ500@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 May 2013 10:29:00 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MMT00EXAWSCBO90@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 May 2013 10:29:00 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:90796 Archived-At: > From: Kevin Rodgers > Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 23:17:44 -0600 > > 1. Because the default value of magic-mode-alist is nil. > > 2. Because the default value of auto-mode-alist matches the ".gif" extension. > > 3. Because it is not obvious what the signature is for a text file -- perhaps > something like "\\`[[:print:]\t\f\r\n]", which is so general that it would > prevent most of the existing automatic method from working. > > See the "Choosing Modes" section of the Emacs manual. If the request is that any *.gif file whose signature doesn't match be rejected by image-mode, then I suggest to file a feature request bug using "M-x report-emacs-bug RET".