Re: Other (plain text) file types can be indexd by Beagle?

[Daniel Drake <dsd gentoo org>]

Alan Trick wrote:
> Is there a reason why it doesn't (look at the file)?

Yes, for the simple reason that beagle asks gnomevfs to tell us what kind of 
file we're dealing with, and we don't care how it does it.

> That may make some
> sense in a windows environment, but I have a lot of files on the linux
> half of my computer that don't have extentions on them.

You could play with "gnomevfs-info" and examine its behaviour for 
extensionless files, files with the wrong extension, etc. I think it figures 
it out intelligently, which may involve looking at the file contents.

Daniel