GNU bug report logs - #4298
.egg files could open in archive-mode by default

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Gareth Rees <gareth.rees <at> pobox.com>

Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:05:05 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Gareth Rees <gareth.rees <at> pobox.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#4298: .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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