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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: era+emacs@iki.fi, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
	20891@debbugs.gnu.org, stefan@marxist.se
Subject: bug#20891: emacs: Back off if .doc is not an Office document
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 16:06:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2lfsifqf7.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83imnm5yyh.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 14 Nov 2019 16:12:22 +0200")

>>>>> On Thu, 14 Nov 2019 16:12:22 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> said:

    Eli> How would the magic signature recognition help with plain-text files?
    Eli> They don't have any such signatures?  I'm still missing something,
    Eli> sorry.

Today we go: ".doc extension -> show an image of the contents of the
file" which is manifestly the wrong thing to do for a non-doc file. If
we do the signature recognition, those files which are not recognized
end up in (probably) fundamental-mode

Robert





  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-14 15:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-24 11:19 bug#20891: emacs: Back off if .doc is not an Office document era+emacs
2019-08-01 20:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-06  1:53   ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-06 13:08     ` era
2019-11-06 23:19       ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-07  4:45         ` Richard Stallman
2019-11-07  8:29           ` era
2019-11-08 20:59     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-09  6:25       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-09 20:14         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-14  8:54           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-14  9:55             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-14 14:12               ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-14 15:06                 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2019-11-14 16:19                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-14 16:33                     ` Andreas Schwab
2019-11-14 16:42                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-15  7:51                         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-15  8:48                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-15  8:56                             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-15  9:51                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-15 13:20                                 ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-15  9:14                         ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-15  7:50                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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