[OS X TeX] Emacs 22.92, %! and TeXShop

[David Watson]

In the interest of keeping this discussion sane, I will suggest the  
following link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_format#Magic_number

The use of "magic numbers" to identify files does have a long  
history, and emacs is certainly a great text editor with a long  
history. TeXShop should not be expected to use the same "magic  
number" paradigm that some developer contributed to the emacs code at  
some distant point in the past. I use both programs for editing latex  
documents, because they both have their strengths, and I suppose the  
original submitter has similar feelings.

On Jan 26, 2007, at 9:22 PM, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:

> On Jan 26, 2007, at 9:02 PM, Thomas Kiffe wrote:
>
>> The question now is which program should be modified.
>
> Forgot to add: Modifying TeXShop requires all TeXShop users to  
> modify all their texfiles, for no apparent to them reason. Some of  
> them might not have even heard of emacs.
> Modifying emacs does not require any changes in user's texfiles.
>
> Haris


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