Re: using libmagic in Emacs?

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

() Miles Bader <address@hidden>
() Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:19:37 +0900

   If there was such elisp code, Emacs could use any magic rules
   file on the system, and in addition, could distribute it's own
   (perhaps smaller) set.

Some proof-of-concept grade Scheme code that (re)processes the
magic rules format into sexps, and also does the non-char-encoding
side of file(1) is at [0].  Converted rules (v1, v2) are at [1].

(Aside) I think the best candidate for libfoo integration with
Emacs would be libguile.  In contrast, when i read of other
libfoo proposals, i can't help but feel somewhat deflated.

thi

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[0] http://www.gnuvola.org/software/ttn-do/
    (see file magic.scm in the tarball)
[1] http://www.gnuvola.org/data/index.html
    (see entry "de-uglified magic file")