From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jai Dayal Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: "Text is read-only"... except it isn't... or shouldn't be Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 13:45:01 -0700 Message-ID: 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> <837gj170pz.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1368564550 23272 80.91.229.3 (14 May 2013 20:49:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 20:49:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 14 22:49:10 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 1UcM9d-0007bV-A8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 May 2013 22:49:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57332 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UcM6Q-0004xz-Ms for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 May 2013 16:45:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:58726) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UcM69-0004x9-KW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 May 2013 16:45:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UcM68-0007lF-7V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 May 2013 16:45:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ve0-x22b.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400c:c01::22b]:53094) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UcM66-0007kt-0g; Tue, 14 May 2013 16:45:22 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-ve0-f171.google.com with SMTP id m1so1221475ves.2 for ; Tue, 14 May 2013 13:45:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=N6Gq4c1xglo6Vw64RpTtkIKPo3zevaIYpWCdo2a67ZY=; b=abzL2BFSlD5b5VsQL3aQ3Jf7NaHcHrLFKLshP3ouhdDYUuaUEx8Tow65NgS79vTybh DAujc9CkgdUquf6N/Ch9l1a06OIrn1WFHsLKx3aGI5EdOmIaHLvEPuzm3976v6i8uG4t RXdXt29baVd8i4ZCfIc60E8qAHCLsBfvu/IIzFZjgxejD0EidLX1BwAahgVqaBs3JmS0 GGkkNWg4K1SLCXB/P2rl5GSjW6PQ3azYOUjJs7YEFJNYHWD7Vp37rM0zLEsORg5jgbFQ 897npNGm5lKdTeM5G9aGaicFOf5sHVWD/I+P2mQFaTLFjcmvCnwzDXlLMB8dS2xQVzqx x0IQ== X-Received: by 10.220.96.17 with SMTP id f17mr22708678vcn.58.1368564321339; Tue, 14 May 2013 13:45:21 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.220.75.67 with HTTP; Tue, 14 May 2013 13:45:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <837gj170pz.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400c:c01::22b X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 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:90781 Archived-At: How do I unsubscribe to this trivial list On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 16:39:59 -0400 > > From: ken > > CC: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > > > On 05/14/2013 09:39 AM Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > >> Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 08:22:00 -0400 > > >> From: ken > > >> CC: Eli Zaretskii , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > >> > > >> [...] overly simplistic strategy for determining a file type merely > > >> by looking at the filename extension, especially when this can be > > >> more suitably and accurately and intelligently accomplished by > > >> determining a file's magic number as the Linux "file" utility does. > > > > > > Emacs does look at the magic signature, see magic-mode-alist. > > > > > > > They why didn't it see that my file was (obviously) a text file and not > > an image file? > > I have no idea, and won't have one, unless you disclose the name of > that file. > >