Comment 0 for bug 1466139

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

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)