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Emacs offers the ability to use the MIME standard text/enriched for writing enriched text. What is the canonical file name extension for this format. Emacs seems to think it's .doc (see $EMACSDIR/24.1/etc/enriched.doc), but this could be confused with the more common Microsoft Word .doc format. Is there an alternative?

(I know it's not .rtf, which is a format different from both Microsoft's .doc and MIME's text/enriched formats)

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It seems that .etf and .txte are some accepted extensions for this file type.

SABBATINI Luca
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  • Where in Emacs do you see .doc associated with text/enriched? In Emacs 24.1, ".docx?" is associated with doc-view-mode-maybe, for viewing MS Office files via OpenOffice PDF generation tools. – JSON Aug 01 '12 at 01:20
  • In the Info node `(emacs) Enriched Text`, there's reference to a file `$EMACSDIR/24.1/etc/enriched.doc`, itself in `text/enriched` format, which demonstrates the capabilities of Emacs's `Enriched Mode`. – SABBATINI Luca Aug 06 '12 at 02:18
  • Yes, this follows an old convention to name documentation text files as .doc. Emacs doesn't actually use the file extension to identify text/enriched files, it uses the first line of the file - try find-file-literally on enriched.doc to see. – JSON Aug 07 '12 at 09:16

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text/enriched is also known as Enriched Text Format or .etf.

http://users.starpower.net/ksimler/eudora/etf.html

http://filext.com/file-extension/ETF

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Due to its intended use as an inline mail format, I don't think there is a standard file extension for it. .txte seems to be another extension that is used for it though, which does not clash with other well-known formats.

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  • thanks JSON. I haven't ever seen `.txte` before. Could you link a reference? – SABBATINI Luca Aug 06 '12 at 02:25
  • I got it from a search on "mime.types text/enriched", which turned up a lot of mime.types files that do not assign any file extension to it and an example on this page: http://stuff.mit.edu/faq/mimetypes.html – JSON Aug 07 '12 at 09:14