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From: Roland Winkler <Roland.Winkler@physik.uni-erlangen.de>
Subject: emacs interface for the unix file(1) command
Date: 09 Oct 2003 16:17:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3d6d65wcr.fsf@tfkp07.physik.uni-erlangen.de> (raw)

Is there an emacs interface for the unix file(1) command?

What I have in mind is that I am using dired mode to clean my
tmp and scratch directories. Often there are files with some strange
names like XFdg34D678 that contain, maybe postscript files, maybe
pdf or dvi files or whatever. Before deleting these files I'd like
to view them either with an appropriate viewer or I'd like to visit
them in an emacs buffer that uses the appropriate mode even though
auto-mode-alist might be of little help. That's why I thought about
an emacs interface for the file(1) command.

Thanks a lot,

Roland

             reply	other threads:[~2003-10-09 14:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-09 14:17 Roland Winkler [this message]
2003-10-09 15:59 ` emacs interface for the unix file(1) command Matthias Meulien
2003-10-09 20:39   ` Roland Winkler
2003-10-09 21:27     ` Matthias Meulien

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