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Re: using libmagic in Emacs?
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James Cloos |
Subject: |
Re: using libmagic in Emacs? |
Date: |
Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:27:06 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
>>>>> "Miles" == Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
Miles> I wonder how hard it would be to have some elisp that understands
Miles> the "magic" rules that the file command uses...
It shouldn't be too hard, but note that the current versions of file do
not install the text-format magic file, but rather a compiled .mgc file
instead.
The format of the text file is documented in the magic(4) man page.
(Which ought to be in section 5....) I don't see any documentation
of the .mgc files, but there may be in the src.
-JimC
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James Cloos <address@hidden> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6
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