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** 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)

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Title:
  .doc file name mapping should be more careful

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