Re: recognizing a file by scanning it

[Chong Yidong]

Jason Rumney <address@hidden> writes:

> Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:
>> But before continuing, i would like to discover if anyone else is
>> working on something similar, to avoid (more?) duplicate effort.
>>   
>
> magic-mode-alist was added early in the development of Emacs 22. All
> entries were removed from it shortly before Emacs 22.1 was released
> due to security issues that were raised during pretest.

I don't recall that there was any security issues.  Rather, these
entries were moved to magic-fallback-mode-alist, so that they have a
lower priority than filename autodetection.