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29.0.50; Emacs does not invoke doc view to open odf files

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Raoul Comninos <revcomninos <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 54947 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#54947: 29.0.50; Emacs does not invoke doc view to open odf files
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2022 09:48:52 +0200

Raoul Comninos <revcomninos <at> gmail.com> writes:

> When I try to open an odt file in Emacs I get this error:
>
> File mode specification error: (error Conflicting types: name says (odf)
> but content says (epub))
>
> This is despite the fact that I have this in my init file:
>
> (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.odt\\'" . doc-view-mode))

The error message comes from doc-view-mode, so it is being used here.
But have you checked whether the message is gives is correct?  It's
saying that you're giving it a file called .odf while the contents of
the file is really an epub file.

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