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Re: using libmagic in Emacs?
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: using libmagic in Emacs? |
Date: |
Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:36:27 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
> If some other Lisp code is interested in the mime type of a file,
> there is a much easier way to find it out: run `file'.
Actually, running `file' might be a useful fallback (especially if run
via process-file so it also works on remote files, contrary to
libmagic).
Also, looking at the way the magic database works, it seems that we
might want to run `file-type-by-magic' on a buffer's content as well.
As for Miles's suggestion to interpret the magic file directly, I think
it's a bad idea: let's not reinvent the wheel, the code that parses this
database and uses it already exists, it's in libmagic, so we should just
use it.
Stefan
- Re: using libmagic in Emacs?, (continued)
- Re: using libmagic in Emacs?, Richard Stallman, 2009/08/19
- Re: using libmagic in Emacs?, Juri Linkov, 2009/08/22
- Re: using libmagic in Emacs?, Richard Stallman, 2009/08/23
- Re: using libmagic in Emacs?, Juri Linkov, 2009/08/23
- Re: using libmagic in Emacs?, joakim, 2009/08/24
- Re: using libmagic in Emacs?, Richard Stallman, 2009/08/24
- Re: using libmagic in Emacs?, Miles Bader, 2009/08/24
- Re: using libmagic in Emacs?, joakim, 2009/08/25
- Re: using libmagic in Emacs?, James Cloos, 2009/08/25
- Re: using libmagic in Emacs?, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2009/08/25
- Re: using libmagic in Emacs?,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: using libmagic in Emacs?, Juri Linkov, 2009/08/25
- Re: using libmagic in Emacs?, Juri Linkov, 2009/08/29
- Re: using libmagic in Emacs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/08/29
- Re: using libmagic in Emacs?, Juri Linkov, 2009/08/30
- Re: using libmagic in Emacs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/08/30
- Re: using libmagic in Emacs?, Juri Linkov, 2009/08/31
- Re: using libmagic in Emacs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/08/31
- Re: using libmagic in Emacs?, Richard Stallman, 2009/08/31
- Re: using libmagic in Emacs?, Richard Stallman, 2009/08/30
- Re: using libmagic in Emacs?, Chong Yidong, 2009/08/31