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From: | ken |
Subject: | Re: Essential question [re: Re: "Text is read-only"... except it isn't... or shouldn't be] |
Date: | Thu, 16 May 2013 10:23:04 -0400 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130402 Thunderbird/17.0.5 |
On 05/16/2013 07:08 AM ken wrote:
On 05/16/2013 02:27 AM Kevin Rodgers wrote:On 5/15/13 5:48 AM, ken wrote:On 05/15/2013 01:17 AM Kevin Rodgers wrote:On 5/14/13 2:39 PM, ken wrote:On 05/14/2013 09:39 AM Eli Zaretskii wrote:Emacs does look at the magic signature, see magic-mode-alist.....Yes: Instead of trying to detect text files by their content, detect all the other kinds of files by their content or name (and then default to Fundamental mode).So given this: echo This is not an image file. > list.gif; emacs list.gif & which mode should emacs invoke?
If this question can't be answered straightforwardly and unambiguously, then there's really no sense in discussing code... or filing a bug report. For how could it be determined whether the code is working or not?
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