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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Benjamin Riefenstahl <Riefenstahl@mecom.de>
Cc: 36401@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36401: 26.0.90; set-auto-mode uses case-insensitive match for magic-mode-alist
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2019 11:36:21 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83y31b8sqi.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o92jtlx4.fsf@riefenstahl-linux.mecom.de> (message from Benjamin Riefenstahl on Thu, 27 Jun 2019 11:30:47 +0200)

> From: Benjamin Riefenstahl <Riefenstahl@mecom.de>
> Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 11:30:47 +0200
> 
> It turns out that "set-auto-mode" in lisp/files.el is the function that
> uses magic-mode-alist, and it just calls "looking-at" to test the type.
> Because "case-fold-search" is "t" by default, this catches files
> starting with "mtff".
> 
> Is this intentional?  If so, the documentation for "magic-mode-alist"
> should call this out, so users know they might need to work around it.
> If not, I could propose a patch to fix it.

I think this is an omission.  Please do propose a patch to fix it.

Thanks.





  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-06  8:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-27  9:30 bug#36401: 26.0.90; set-auto-mode uses case-insensitive match for magic-mode-alist Benjamin Riefenstahl
2019-07-06  8:36 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-07-14 15:23   ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2019-07-20  9:35     ` Eli Zaretskii

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