From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: recognizing a file by scanning it Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:52:22 -0400 Message-ID: <87ve2229nd.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87od7vr0kt.fsf@ambire.localdomain> <4814ED09.8030707@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1209337039 11810 80.91.229.12 (27 Apr 2008 22:57:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:57:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Thien-Thi Nguyen , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 28 00:57:55 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JqFoe-0004Hv-RL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:57:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48612 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JqFny-000572-DS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:57:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JqFnu-00056T-MA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:57:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JqFnt-000552-8f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:57:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48191 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JqFnt-00054q-5t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:57:05 -0400 Original-Received: from cyd.mit.edu ([18.115.2.24]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JqFnj-0002jK-9L; Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:56:55 -0400 Original-Received: by cyd.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CB40A4E4B8; Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:52:22 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <4814ED09.8030707@gnu.org> (Jason Rumney's message of "Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:15:53 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:96029 Archived-At: Jason Rumney writes: > Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote: >> But before continuing, i would like to discover if anyone else is >> working on something similar, to avoid (more?) duplicate effort. >> > > magic-mode-alist was added early in the development of Emacs 22. All > entries were removed from it shortly before Emacs 22.1 was released > due to security issues that were raised during pretest. I don't recall that there was any security issues. Rather, these entries were moved to magic-fallback-mode-alist, so that they have a lower priority than filename autodetection.