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>

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: era+emacs <at> iki.fi, 20891 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, stefan <at> marxist.se
Subject: bug#20891: emacs: Back off if .doc is not an Office document
Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2019 08:25:38 +0200

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 21:59:54 +0100
> Cc: era+emacs <at> iki.fi, 20891 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> 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.

*.doc files are rare nowadays.  Do the *.docx files have the same
signature?  I doubt that, since they are actually *.zip files in
disguise.
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