GNU bug report logs - #20891
emacs: Back off if .doc is not an Office document

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: era+emacs <at> iki.fi

Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 11:20:03 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Found in version 24.4+1-4ubuntu5

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: era+emacs <at> iki.fi, 20891 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20891: emacs: Back off if .doc is not an Office document
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 21:59:54 +0100

Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se> writes:

> Would implementing this risk make opening *.doc files slower for most
> users?  Perhaps that could make the trade-off not worth it.  Other
> than that, I see no problem with the proposal.

I don't think it'd be any performance problem -- we'd just have to read
the first 8 bytes of the file to see whether the magic sequence is there.

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