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From: | ken |
Subject: | Re: "Text is read-only"... except it isn't... or shouldn't be |
Date: | Tue, 14 May 2013 16:39:59 -0400 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130402 Thunderbird/17.0.5 |
On 05/14/2013 09:39 AM Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 08:22:00 -0400 From: ken <gebser@mousecar.com> CC: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org [...] overly simplistic strategy for determining a file type merely by looking at the filename extension, especially when this can be more suitably and accurately and intelligently accomplished by determining a file's magic number as the Linux "file" utility does.Emacs does look at the magic signature, see magic-mode-alist.
They why didn't it see that my file was (obviously) a text file and not an image file?
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