Re: File type misclassification
"Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com> writes:
> On 3/20/07, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> opening the following file in emacs-snapshot from Ubuntu Edgy
>> (sorry, I don't have a fresher CVS Emacs at work) will throw the
>> buffer into PostScript mode, presumably because it starts with "%!".
>> This seems rather like overkill.
>
> Yep. It's magic-mode-alist's doing:
>
> ("%![^V]" . ps-mode)
First line of the file reads:
%!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
I see three fixes:
1) Restrict the magic for PostScript files to %!PS
("%!PS" . ps-mode)
2) Recognize the specific case of TEX
("%![^VT]" . ps-mode)
3) Remove it from magic-mode-alist.
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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk
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