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Re: Magic MIME
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Magic MIME |
Date: |
Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:16:25 +0200 |
> From: Juri Linkov <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:18:41 +0200
>
> Are there any obstacles to using magic-mime to determine the file
> type in Emacs? If linking libmagic is not possible, then maybe
> we could parse the magic.mime file, and even run the `file'
> command directly on a visited file?
Whatever the decision is, please avoid relying in external commands
that are not available on all supported platforms. `file' isn't.
Emacs should be powerful enough to be able to visit files without
requiring an external tool; if it needs to consult some database for
that, it should be easy enough to include such a data base in the
Emacs distribution, perhaps even in a form that is convenient for
reading in Lisp.