Re: Language identification

[Stefan Monnier]

>> I often wish that files would open in Emacs with correct mode
>> more often when there is no file extension.
> In `auto-mode-alist' you can see that with the exception of
> `archive-mode', `doc-view-mode' and `image-mode', all remaining
> modes are programming text modes.  It would be more useful
> to identify file types for these modes that libmagic can't do.
> Do you know a library that identifies programming languages?
> Such a library might be implemented using a Bayesian classifier
> trained on a sufficiently large corpus of different programming
> languages.

OTOH, how often do you see a file containg programming language code and
yet without ny extension?


        Stefan