GNU bug report logs - #13815
Wrong mode for files with awkward shebang lines

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Andrew Pennebaker <andrew.pennebaker <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 01:26:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: wontfix

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 13815 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13815: Wrong mode for files with awkward shebang lines
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 03:12:25 -0500

Stefan Monnier wrote:

> IIRC no strict priority will do, because for some files, the content is
> more important than the filename.

I've never seen a real-world example where the #! line says one thing,
the filename extension says another, and the #! line is correct.
Does anyone have such an example?

(Going back to #3354, I now have 414 *.conf files in /etc, and not one
has a #! line.)
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