bug#20891: emacs: Back off if .doc is not an Office document

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:

> Would implementing this risk make opening *.doc files slower for most
> users?  Perhaps that could make the trade-off not worth it.  Other
> than that, I see no problem with the proposal.

I don't think it'd be any performance problem -- we'd just have to read
the first 8 bytes of the file to see whether the magic sequence is there.

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