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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Magic MIME
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:16:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uodaop1pi.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87prv4h032.fsf@jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:18:41 +0200)

> From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
> Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:18:41 +0200
> 
> Are there any obstacles to using magic-mime to determine the file
> type in Emacs?  If linking libmagic is not possible, then maybe
> we could parse the magic.mime file, and even run the `file'
> command directly on a visited file?

Whatever the decision is, please avoid relying in external commands
that are not available on all supported platforms.  `file' isn't.

Emacs should be powerful enough to be able to visit files without
requiring an external tool; if it needs to consult some database for
that, it should be easy enough to include such a data base in the
Emacs distribution, perhaps even in a form that is convenient for
reading in Lisp.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-11  4:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-10 23:18 Magic MIME Juri Linkov
2008-02-11  2:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-11 20:55   ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-12  3:25     ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-11  4:16 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-02-11 20:59   ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-11 21:41     ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-12  3:51     ` Richard Stallman

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