From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Language identification Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:20:39 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87skfczqc8.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <877hwnoi8d.fsf@mail.jurta.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1251578284 12385 80.91.229.12 (29 Aug 2009 20:38:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:38:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 29 22:37:57 2009 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 1MhUgO-0004xa-Rq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Aug 2009 22:37:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40174 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MhUgO-0006X5-C0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:37:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MhUec-0005hJ-Vp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:36:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MhUeX-0005dl-5V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:36:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45424 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MhUeW-0005dA-LZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:36:00 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:59750) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MhUeV-0005jV-NB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:35:59 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1MhUPf-0002im-MV; Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:20:39 -0400 In-reply-to: <877hwnoi8d.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:16:30 +0300) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:114848 Archived-At: > OTOH, how often do you see a file containg programming language code and > yet without ny extension? More often with a non-standard extension than without any extension. So why not rename the files, or put in -*- lines? Also there are conflicting extensions like e.g. ".pl" for both Perl and Prolog (esp. SWI-Prolog). Perhaps we should promote .plg for Prolog.