** Summary changed: - Emacs converts ascii files to unmutable images + .doc file name mapping should be more careful
** Description changed: + 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. + + Original problem description follows. + + ----- + Today I downloaded the sources of secure delete. Inspected some files with vi and some with Emacs 24. Did what I wanted to do, started to listen to my favourite internet radio station, wanted to cite on Facebook a citation from the secure delete docs. I wanted to open the file "secure_delete.doc" (a pure ASCII text file) in Emacs 24 and: "Whenever you see this buffer I'm going to make a picture of it and you won't be able to edit anything." Haha, no this really reminds me of the monkey face during the Ubuntu installation. But don't make a monkey out of me because Emacs 24 is going to be replaced with svi an extensible text base line editor yet to be written. Emacs' open file is broken: - - whenever it sees a file with the extension or post fix ".doc" it treats it like a Office document. - - it takes an image of it - - and shows you the image - which for a pure text file shows you the contents of the file as an image in that gone editor + - whenever it sees a file with the extension or post fix ".doc" it treats it like a Office document. + - it takes an image of it + - and shows you the image - which for a pure text file shows you the contents of the file as an image in that gone editor They should use the /file/ utility to check for the file type - but showing an unmutable picture of pure text is like making a monkey out of the user. Was that joke great? (And never forget: we could hire a trained monkey to do your job.) Viper is retreating. Emacs is gone. I need a new editor. No more discussions or comments on this no no. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04 Package: emacs24 24.4+1-4ubuntu5 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-15.15-generic 3.19.3 Uname: Linux 3.19.0-15-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: wl ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Wed Jun 17 17:29:07 2015 InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-06-08 (9 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422) SourcePackage: emacs24 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1466139 Title: .doc file name mapping should be more careful To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/emacs24/+bug/1466139/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
