Re: Support file-type guess using file/libmagic when source file does not have a suffix

forget to say, the last patch was against 6.5.5

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 9:41 AM Jun Sheng <[email protected]> wrote:

> specifying the filetype in commandline is a good idea, but why not going
> further, make gtags read file type when read file list ?
>
> and I attached a patch, which will guess file type using libmagic
>
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 3:16 PM Shigio YAMAGUCHI <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> > Hi,
> > There, what about adding file-type guessing when the source file does
> not have a suffix?
> >
> > Currently when the file doesnot have a suffix, gnu global wont parse it,
> > this is a problem when perl/python ... files. and gtags cant specify
> lang-type on command-line.
>
> You are right.
> Currently, we have a plan to do the following:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-global/2016-10/msg00003.html
>
> Does this specification fulfill your requirements?
>
> Regards,
> Shigio
>
>
> 2017-02-20 15:45 GMT+09:00 Jun Sheng <[email protected]>:
>
> Hi,
> There, what about adding file-type guessing when the source file does not
> have a suffix?
>
> Currently when the file doesnot have a suffix, gnu global wont parse it,
> this is a problem when perl/python ... files. and gtags cant specify
> lang-type on command-line.
>
>
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