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bug#20891: emacs: Back off if .doc is not an Office document
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#20891: emacs: Back off if .doc is not an Office document |
Date: |
Thu, 01 Aug 2019 22:53:19 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
era+emacs@iki.fi writes:
> It is not uncommon for *.doc files to contain plain ASCII text. In this
> case, the default behavior of Emacs is less than ideal, as described in
> more detail in the problem report below. Perhaps the .doc file name
> mapping should contain some additional heuristics, and fall back to
> plain text if the file is not an Office document.
(I'm going through old bug reports that have unfortunately not gotten
any responses.)
I think this makes sense. A fix in Emacs would mean moving the .doc
recognition from `auto-mode-alist' to... `magic-fallback-mode-alist', I
guess.
According to the interwebs, the magic sequence for Word .doc files is:
D0 CF 11 E0 A1 B1 1A E1
Does anybody have an opinion here?
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