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Re: "Text is read-only"... except it isn't... or shouldn't be
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Jai Dayal |
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Re: "Text is read-only"... except it isn't... or shouldn't be |
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Tue, 14 May 2013 13:45:01 -0700 |
How do I unsubscribe to this trivial list
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 16:39:59 -0400
> > From: ken <gebser@mousecar.com>
> > CC: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> >
> > On 05/14/2013 09:39 AM Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > >> Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 08:22:00 -0400
> > >> From: ken <gebser@mousecar.com>
> > >> CC: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> > >>
> > >> [...] overly simplistic strategy for determining a file type merely
> > >> by looking at the filename extension, especially when this can be
> > >> more suitably and accurately and intelligently accomplished by
> > >> determining a file's magic number as the Linux "file" utility does.
> > >
> > > Emacs does look at the magic signature, see magic-mode-alist.
> > >
> >
> > They why didn't it see that my file was (obviously) a text file and not
> > an image file?
>
> I have no idea, and won't have one, unless you disclose the name of
> that file.
>
>
- Re: "Text is read-only"... except it isn't... or shouldn't be, (continued)
- Re: "Text is read-only"... except it isn't... or shouldn't be, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/05/13
- Re: "Text is read-only"... except it isn't... or shouldn't be, ken, 2013/05/13
- Re: "Text is read-only"... except it isn't... or shouldn't be, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/05/14
- Re: "Text is read-only"... except it isn't... or shouldn't be, Peter Dyballa, 2013/05/14
- Re: "Text is read-only"... except it isn't... or shouldn't be, ken, 2013/05/14
- Re: "Text is read-only"... except it isn't... or shouldn't be, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/05/14
- Re: "Text is read-only"... except it isn't... or shouldn't be, ken, 2013/05/14
- Re: "Text is read-only"... except it isn't... or shouldn't be, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/05/14
- Re: "Text is read-only"... except it isn't... or shouldn't be,
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- Re: "Text is read-only"... except it isn't... or shouldn't be, Óscar Fuentes, 2013/05/14
- How to unsubscribe (was: "Text is read-only"... except it isn't... or shouldn't be), Bob Proulx, 2013/05/14
- Re: How to unsubscribe (was: "Text is read-only"... except it isn't... or shouldn't be), Jai Dayal, 2013/05/14
- Re: How to unsubscribe (was: "Text is read-only"... except it isn't... or shouldn't be), Eli Zaretskii, 2013/05/15
- Re: How to unsubscribe (was: "Text is read-only"... except it isn't... or shouldn't be), Suvayu Ali, 2013/05/16
- Re: "Text is read-only"... except it isn't... or shouldn't be, ken, 2013/05/14
- Re: "Text is read-only"... except it isn't... or shouldn't be, Kevin Rodgers, 2013/05/15
- Re: "Text is read-only"... except it isn't... or shouldn't be, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/05/15
- Re: "Text is read-only"... except it isn't... or shouldn't be, ken, 2013/05/15
- Re: "Text is read-only"... except it isn't... or shouldn't be, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/05/15