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Re: using libmagic in Emacs?
From: |
Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: using libmagic in Emacs? |
Date: |
Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:52:01 -0400 |
> Depending on libmagic is too much price to pay for saving a small
> amount of work. It's better to do the small amount of work needed to
> recognize the few file types we want to recognize, using the existing
> mechanisms.
I'd rather let other people do this work. That's why libmagic
makes a lot of sense.
It's a small amount of work, and the burden of distributing and using
libmagic will be a persistant annoyance.