bug#4298: .egg files could open in archive-mode by default

bug#4298: .egg files could open in archive-mode by default

[Gareth Rees]

Python modules are often distributed as files with the extension  
".egg". These are just ZIP files with a convention about the layout of  
the contents, as described in [1].

It would be nice if Emacs could open these files in archive-mode by  
default, either by adding an entry for the file extension ".egg" to  
auto-mode-alist, or by adding a suitable pattern for ZIP files to  
magic-fallback-mode-alist.

(Perhaps this suggestion will become moot when libmagic is integrated  
into Emacs.)

[1] "The Internal Structure of Python Eggs"; http://svn.python.org/projects/sandbox/trunk/setuptools/doc/formats.txt

-- 
Gareth Rees

bug#4298: .egg files could open in archive-mode by default

[Juri Linkov]

> It would be nice if Emacs could open these files in archive-mode by
> default, either by adding an entry for the file extension ".egg" to
> auto-mode-alist, or by adding a suitable pattern for ZIP files to
> magic-fallback-mode-alist.
>
> (Perhaps this suggestion will become moot when libmagic is integrated
> into Emacs.)

Emacs should support this regardless of the libmagic presence.

Could you please try to open an .egg file in the latest CVS.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/

bug#4298: .egg files could open in archive-mode by default

[Gareth Rees]

Juri Linkov wrote:
> Emacs should support this regardless of the libmagic presence.
>
> Could you please try to open an .egg file in the latest CVS.

Unfortunately the latest CVS does not build for me:

$ ./configure --with-ns && make
...
Compiling /Users/gdr/emacs-cvs/emacs/lisp/url/url-dav.el

In toplevel form:
url/url-dav.el:36:1:Error: Cannot open doc string file "/Applications/ 
Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/etc/DOC-23.1.50.1"
make[1]: *** [/Users/gdr/emacs-cvs/emacs/lisp/url/url-dav.elc] Error 1
make: *** [lisp] Error 2

(I don't know why it's looking in /Applications/Emacs.app for the doc  
string file instead of in the local build tree where it exists.)

-- 
Gareth Rees

bug#4298: marked as done (.egg files could open in archive-mode by default)

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From: Gareth Rees <gareth.rees@pobox.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: .egg files could open in archive-mode by default
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:58:42 +0100
Message-ID: <CD4BA927-CFCA-45D0-8208-2697477DD22E@pobox.com>

Python modules are often distributed as files with the extension  
".egg". These are just ZIP files with a convention about the layout of  
the contents, as described in [1].

It would be nice if Emacs could open these files in archive-mode by  
default, either by adding an entry for the file extension ".egg" to  
auto-mode-alist, or by adding a suitable pattern for ZIP files to  
magic-fallback-mode-alist.

(Perhaps this suggestion will become moot when libmagic is integrated  
into Emacs.)

[1] "The Internal Structure of Python Eggs"; http://svn.python.org/projects/sandbox/trunk/setuptools/doc/formats.txt

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Gareth Rees



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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: 4298-done@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: Re: bug#4298: .egg files could open in archive-mode by default
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:35:31 -0400
Message-ID: <wahbvmsbjw.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>

Juri Linkov wrote:

> Emacs should support this regardless of the libmagic presence.
>
> Could you please try to open an .egg file in the latest CVS.

I downloaded a random .egg file and it opened fine for me in the CVS
trunk (not in 23.1).