Re: C file recoginzed as image file

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Chris Moore wrote:
> Charles Rendleman <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > $ cat not_image_file.c
> > #define
> >
> > $ emacs -Q not_image_file.c
> > $
>
> image.el has:
>
> (defconst image-type-header-regexps
> ...
>     ("\\`[\t\n\r ]*#define" . xbm)
> ...
>
> so any file beginning with optional white space and then #define is
> treated as an xbm image.
>
> Similarly, any text file which starts with the 4 characters "GIF8" is
> treated as if it was an image.


It would be rather surprising at least on w32 if a file with extension 
.c was an image file.