From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Juanma Barranquero" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: C file recoginzed as image file Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 00:43:22 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1168299831 27497 80.91.229.12 (8 Jan 2007 23:43:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 23:43:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dooglus@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, c.a.rendle@gmail.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 09 00:43:48 2007 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 1H449R-0008Rg-Ff for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 00:43:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H449Q-0005Iw-Rs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 18:43:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H449G-0005Ij-1C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 18:43:26 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H449D-0005IX-II for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 18:43:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H449D-0005IU-DN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 18:43:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [64.233.182.185] (helo=nf-out-0910.google.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1H449C-0007j6-UD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 18:43:23 -0500 Original-Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id h2so2229092nfe for ; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:43:22 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=YkTilsd0Y3mR723TLWOr2XSWSC4xzU4YQulvVZWULI/zUwYEdcWI/34jqNv2Nv21/07a/FAG7cDhcNeXWPXiVRc7Skwh7AHzoI3qUHm86hcmfJjzzDmCRxLwZfMbxuDrYadX+Ijr/NMxm+7bA3bUTGbD2rtMJdlmCWR+oG4c0zs= Original-Received: by 10.82.120.15 with SMTP id s15mr3155718buc.1168299802068; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:43:22 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.82.146.7 with HTTP; Mon, 8 Jan 2007 15:43:21 -0800 (PST) Original-To: "Stefan Monnier" In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline 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:65022 Archived-At: On 1/9/07, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Actually that's not true. The nature of a file in Unix is neither > determined by its name nor by its content but by what you do with it. That's more of a philosophical question, but a JPEG image is a JPEG image. Whether you treat it like text, bytes, an image or a pseudo-random source is another matter entirely. Your camera didn't take a text file or a bit of random binary data, it took a picture in JPEG format. It's a practical question: how many times that image will be used as that, an image, as opposed to as any other thing? /L/e/k/t/u