Re: using libmagic in Emacs?

[James Cloos]

>>>>> "Miles" == Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

Miles> I wonder how hard it would be to have some elisp that understands
Miles> the "magic" rules that the file command uses...

It shouldn't be too hard, but note that the current versions of file do
not install the text-format magic file, but rather a compiled .mgc file
instead.

The format of the text file is documented in the magic(4) man page.
(Which ought to be in section 5....)  I don't see any documentation
of the .mgc files, but there may be in the src.

-JimC
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