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.egg files could open in archive-mode by default

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (Emacs bug Tracking System)
To: Gareth Rees <gareth.rees <at> pobox.com>
Subject: bug#4298 closed by Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> (Re: bug#4298: .egg
 files could open in archive-mode by default)
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:40:10 +0000

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#4298: .egg files could open in archive-mode by default

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 4298-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#4298: .egg files could open in archive-mode by default
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:35:31 -0400

Juri Linkov wrote:

> Emacs should support this regardless of the libmagic presence.
>
> Could you please try to open an .egg file in the latest CVS.

I downloaded a random .egg file and it opened fine for me in the CVS
trunk (not in 23.1).

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From: Gareth Rees <gareth.rees <at> pobox.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: .egg files could open in archive-mode by default
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:58:42 +0100

Python modules are often distributed as files with the extension  
".egg". These are just ZIP files with a convention about the layout of  
the contents, as described in [1].

It would be nice if Emacs could open these files in archive-mode by  
default, either by adding an entry for the file extension ".egg" to  
auto-mode-alist, or by adding a suitable pattern for ZIP files to  
magic-fallback-mode-alist.

(Perhaps this suggestion will become moot when libmagic is integrated  
into Emacs.)

[1] "The Internal Structure of Python Eggs"; http://svn.python.org/projects/sandbox/trunk/setuptools/doc/formats.txt

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Gareth Rees

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