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Re: using libmagic in Emacs?
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Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
Re: using libmagic in Emacs? |
Date: |
Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:57:21 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>> There are some operations in Emacs which tries to do the same thing as
>> the "libmagic" library, which is the core of the "file" utility, does.
>>
>> For instance, in "image.el" there is functionality to look at magic
>> numbers in image files.
image.el doesn't recognize some rare JPEG formats, so libmagic will be
useful here.
>> Also, I often whish that files would open in Emacs with correct mode
>> more often when there is no file extension.
libmagick could supplement `magic-mode-alist' and `magic-fallback-mode-alist'.
> I think it's a good idea. It may require some non-trivial changes on
> the Lisp side, since libmagic's information is not quite the same as
> what Emacs currently uses: we'll probably want to use libmagic to get
> a MIME-type and then have a table mapping mime-types to major modes or
> some such.
gnus/mailcap.el contains a table mapping MIME-types to major modes.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
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Re: using libmagic in Emacs?,
Juri Linkov <=
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- Re: using libmagic in Emacs?, Richard Stallman, 2009/08/23
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