magic.scm

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

A few months back there was some (light) discussion on emacs-devel
re incorporating file(1) functionality into Emacs proper.  As a
warmup to magic.el, i wrote magic.scm, appended, to appear in the
next ttn-do release.  It's not a replacement for file by any means
(still half-baked), but anyway seems to do ok given the handful of
file types tested against it.

Probably in a few days i will publish ~/.magic (derived from
/usr/share/file/magic with some syntax errors fixed) and the
"compiled magic file" ~/.magic.ttn-do-magic somewhere under
<http://www.gnuvola.org/data/> -- check there for updates.

In the code, there are a few "sigh"s where magic(5) and/or my brain
were not sufficient to rationalize file's actual/intended behavior
on certain inputs.  Ah well, scanners live in vain...

thi

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magic.scm
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