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

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
Cc: era+emacs <at> iki.fi, 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 18:19:43 +0200

> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>,  era+emacs <at> iki.fi,
>   20891 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  stefan <at> marxist.se
> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 16:06:36 +0100
> 
> Today we go: ".doc extension -> show an image of the contents of the
> file"

Where do we have the code or data which does that?

> 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

That's OK, but I'm still missing the code which makes this happen.
E.g., I just did "C-x C-f foo.doc RET" and got a buffer in Fundamental
mode.
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