On Tue 17 Nov 2015 at 14:57:58 -0500, shawn wilson wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Tue 17 Nov 2015 at 14:05:25 -0500, shawn wilson wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> >> > On Tue 17 Nov 2015 at 13:08:49 -0500, shawn wilson wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Chris Bannister
> >> >> <cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
> >> >> > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 09:31:53AM -0500, shawn wilson wrote:
> >> >> >> On Nov 16, 2015 5:37 PM, "Lisi Reisz" <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> >> > department has been trying for an hour". Puzzled, because I
> >> >> >> > thought I had
> >> >> >> > sent a .pdf, and had checked that it opened fine in Evince, I
> >> >> >> > looked at
> >> >> >> the
> >> >> >> > file - groaned - and renamed scan-foo to scan-foo.pdf. When
> >> >> >> > resent it
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> communicated (via its extension). If you create a pdf, it is bad to
> >> >> >> not
> >> >> >> have the pdf extension - you've lost data.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > How have you lost data?
> >> >>
> >> >> You loose what the file type (data) should be if you save a file w/o
> >> >> an extension. Again, this is fine for an installed program (no one
> >> >> cares as long as it works) but not so good for data that is processed
> >> >> by another program or a script I want to edit.
> >> >
> >> > You would have to give a specific example where a file processed by a
> >> > program or script fails to open for this argument to be convincing, You
> >> > also have to distinguish between data in the file and information the
> >> > extension conveys to the program.
> >>
> >> How about just that vim filetype relies on the filename to determine the
> >> format?
> >
> > "vim filetype". I don't know what you mean. 'vim /usr/bin/vim' opens the
> > file. I do not understand a word of the display but it does open it. An
> > extension doesn't seem to have a part to play in the file's opening.
> >
>
> Your way of setting filetype is by looking at the extension - for example:
> :autocmd BufRead *.js set filetype=javascript
>
> Same goes for *.pl or *.pm or *.py or *.c, etc
You have completely lost me now. You were the one who said
You loose what the file type (data) should be if you save a file w/o
an extension.
I'm saying you do not need an extension to open a file.
I've also asked for a *concrete example* of a program not opening a file
because of the lack of an extension. It hasn't yet been given.
