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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Message #44 received at 20891 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: era+emacs <at> iki.fi, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, 20891 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 stefan <at> marxist.se
Subject: Re: bug#20891: emacs: Back off if .doc is not an Office document
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 16:06:36 +0100

>>>>> On Thu, 14 Nov 2019 16:12:22 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> said:

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

Today we go: ".doc extension -> show an image of the contents of the
file" which is manifestly the wrong thing to do for a non-doc file. If
we do the signature recognition, those files which are not recognized
end up in (probably) fundamental-mode

Robert
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