From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ken Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: "Text is read-only"... except it isn't... or shouldn't be Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 17:36:11 -0400 Message-ID: <5192AE4B.1060304@mousecar.com> 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> Reply-To: gebser@mousecar.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1368567406 19951 80.91.229.3 (14 May 2013 21:36:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 21:36:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 14 23:36:44 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 1UcMto-0004AQ-4C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 May 2013 23:36:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50189 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UcMtn-00032h-N0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 May 2013 17:36:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:43542) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UcMtX-0002yc-Um for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 May 2013 17:36:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UcMtV-0006U2-Fw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 May 2013 17:36:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.perfora.net ([74.208.4.194]:61151) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UcMtV-0006TX-2f; Tue, 14 May 2013 17:36:25 -0400 Original-Received: from dellap.mousecar.net (dsl093-011-016.cle1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.93.11.16]) by mrelay.perfora.net (node=mrus3) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MNZkg-1UZcnm21sI-006u78; Tue, 14 May 2013 17:36:23 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130402 Thunderbird/17.0.5 In-Reply-To: <837gj170pz.fsf@gnu.org> X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:KGuC8Rx/XwH6R3mCIQQEtgiwSSOEo4y4Yh8173384/B tysjcbecUgA83NudUH1Ya31PUQva3wF1E9RfudiURRquUiO0gD DJ6AjZcYh9fochCvEoOxsVQKiEnRAh4gTwS4x3+sb/1TqC2l2N gXkQ3gScIsFpQ9/LcACt6tH11uggBcDHZPizg6Ckzids9IZXJ4 1uBknTuYbAsfH9XgHzdweY/He4eINcK26ohg0/ldYqT/hylDj+ jc0bKeOgYLhSgaDJsvHZAI7AW5LXh8rikrTKgzXXagY8YM5iXg iZ6iEEuTKsyy0CyoleW9R0ApSTUOhFGxJtfq8OX3U9f9lyU16U g3DcYccBqOZ+UePtekkX5I4hYh9sTRa0sWCsw6TAX X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 74.208.4.194 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:90783 Archived-At: On 05/14/2013 04:42 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. > list.gif Would it make a difference if the basename (without the extension) were named something else?