Re: File type misclassification

[Juanma Barranquero]

On 3/21/07, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:

> When arguing against c), it is not clear whether you agree with a)
> being a sufficiently bad idea.

I wasn't "arguing against" anything. I agreed with Stefan that
magic-mode-alist should be kept to a minimum, and with you that there
are Postscript files which cannot be detected just by extension.

If I had to argue, it would be in favor of using the more restrictive
regexp that can possibly work.

> If people feel that they have been weighed wrongly, the way to resolve
> this is not repeating arguments, but vote on the resolution.

I was not "repeating arguments", because I wasn't arguing.

> Everything else seems like a waste of time.

Suddenly you seem very worried about wasted time.

            Juanma