Re: Language identification

[Alex Ott]

Sorry, I skipped, that this was about programming languages, not real
languages.  

Juri Linkov  at "Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:27:35 +0300" wrote:
 >> I often wish that files would open in Emacs with correct mode
 >> more often when there is no file extension.

 JL> In `auto-mode-alist' you can see that with the exception of
 JL> `archive-mode', `doc-view-mode' and `image-mode', all remaining
 JL> modes are programming text modes.  It would be more useful
 JL> to identify file types for these modes that libmagic can't do.
 JL> Do you know a library that identifies programming languages?
 JL> Such a library might be implemented using a Bayesian classifier
 JL> trained on a sufficiently large corpus of different programming
 JL> languages.



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