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: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 16:12:22 +0200

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: stefan <at> marxist.se,  era+emacs <at> iki.fi,  20891 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 10:55:35 +0100
> 
> > Sorry, I don't follow that logic.  I'd expect that *.doc MS Word files
> > becoming rarer would mean plain-text *.doc files become relatively
> > more important, i.e. the opposite conclusion.  What did I miss?
> 
> That's what I'm saying.  :-) Or at least I tried to.  It's more
> important to add magic byte recognition to doc-mode for .doc files now
> than before.

How would the magic signature recognition help with plain-text files?
They don't have any such signatures?  I'm still missing something,
sorry.
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