Re: File type misclassification

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> On 3/20/07, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > opening the following file in emacs-snapshot from Ubuntu Edgy
> > (sorry, I don't have a fresher CVS Emacs at work) will throw the
> > buffer into PostScript mode, presumably because it starts with "%!".
> > This seems rather like overkill.
>
> Yep. It's magic-mode-alist's doing:
>
> ("%![^V]" . ps-mode)
>
> > Maybe it is already fixed in CVS: no idea.
>
> No.
>             Juanma


Maybe the spec

* Adobe Technical Note 5001: PostScript Language Document Structuring,
http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/ps/5001.DSC_Spec.pdf

Looks to me like "%!PS ... something ..." should be useful, but I do not 
know what the header can look like in a PostSript file.