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From: Brian Adkins <info@lojic.com>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.0.60; Can't paste from files with .arc extensions
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 19:58:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47D479AE.3010800@lojic.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1JYSWj-0001AU-5F@fencepost.gnu.org>

Richard Stallman wrote, On 03/09/2008 04:53 PM:
 >     Paul Graham's new Arc language uses .arc as an
 >     extension
 >
 > They are asking for trouble by using that extension.  They should
 > change the extension ASAP.

What is the problem? Arc programming language files are plain text and 
archive files are binary, right? Shouldn't that be enough to distinguish 
between them?

 > I am not sure whether we should try to make Emacs distinguish between
 > Arc programs and .arc archives.  If this can be done so reliably
 > that it never makes a mistake, then we may as well do it.  But if it
 > is not that reliable, better to tell all Arc programmers that they
 > should put -*-arc-language-*- in their files.
 >
 > Is the implementation of Arc free software?
 >
 >





  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-09 23:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-09  0:14 23.0.60; Can't paste from files with .arc extensions Brian Adkins
2008-03-09 20:53 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-09 21:17   ` Bastien
2008-03-10 17:16     ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-09 21:20   ` Eric Hanchrow
2008-03-09 21:27     ` Bastien
2008-03-09 21:59   ` Miles Bader
2008-03-09 22:39     ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-03-09 22:50       ` Miles Bader
2008-03-10  4:08         ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-03-10 17:16         ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-09 22:45     ` Andreas Schwab
2008-03-10 17:15     ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-09 22:27   ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-03-10 17:16     ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-12  4:30       ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-03-09 23:58   ` Brian Adkins [this message]
2008-03-10  8:33     ` tomas
2008-03-10 13:12       ` Brian Adkins
2008-03-10 17:16     ` Richard Stallman

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