Language identification (was: using libmagic in Emacs)

[Juri Linkov]

> I often wish that files would open in Emacs with correct mode
> more often when there is no file extension.

In `auto-mode-alist' you can see that with the exception of
`archive-mode', `doc-view-mode' and `image-mode', all remaining
modes are programming text modes.  It would be more useful
to identify file types for these modes that libmagic can't do.
Do you know a library that identifies programming languages?
Such a library might be implemented using a Bayesian classifier
trained on a sufficiently large corpus of different programming
languages.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/