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

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: era+emacs <at> iki.fi
Cc: 20891 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20891: emacs: Back off if .doc is not an Office document
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 22:53:19 +0200

era+emacs <at> iki.fi writes:

> It is not uncommon for *.doc files to contain plain ASCII text. In this
> case, the default behavior of Emacs is less than ideal, as described in
> more detail in the problem report below. Perhaps the .doc file name
> mapping should contain some additional heuristics, and fall back to
> plain text if the file is not an Office document.

(I'm going through old bug reports that have unfortunately not gotten
any responses.)

I think this makes sense.  A fix in Emacs would mean moving the .doc
recognition from `auto-mode-alist' to...  `magic-fallback-mode-alist', I
guess.

According to the interwebs, the magic sequence for Word .doc files is:

D0 CF 11 E0 A1 B1 1A E1

Does anybody have an opinion here?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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