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From: | ken |
Subject: | Re: "Text is read-only"... except it isn't... or shouldn't be |
Date: | Tue, 14 May 2013 08:22:00 -0400 |
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On 05/14/2013 04:59 AM Peter Dyballa wrote:
Am 14.05.2013 um 08:46 schrieb Eli Zaretskii:Solution: remove that extension from auto-mode-alist, and Bob's your uncle.Cool. That's what I want. So I guess I put something in ~/.emacs... but what?I don't know what is the file-name extension of that file, so I cannot give a precise recipe. Assuming for a moment that its extension is .png, I see that auto-mode-alist includes this element: ("\\.png\\'" . image-mode) So to remove this, you need to do this: (delete '("\\.png\\'" . image-mode) auto-mode-alist)Since this removes all image support from PNG (or the actual type of) files it might be more useful to either rename the file temporarily or to create a link with an extension like .txt and edit that link.
Yeah, I thought about all that. As I said in my original post though, I've been happily editing this file with this name for years. I would sooner switch to using vi on it than to change the file's name in any way. Second and more importantly, I don't care for the Windozy attitude toward users, treating then like idiots and upon that rationale, taking control away from users, or their overly simplistic strategy for determining a file type merely by looking at the filename extension, especially when this can be more suitably and accurately and intelligently accomplished by determining a file's magic number as the Linux "file" utility does.
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