(12-11-2020, 04:24 PM)venam Wrote: do you care to be more descriptive in your analyzes of why you find that adding the extension explicitly is more useful.

1. Certain online code hosting services only look at the file extension to determine how to format a README - including mine.
2. GNU Emacs primarily looks at the file extension to determine which major mode to load. Probably also true for other text editors.

Assuming that we can agree that multimedia file extensions have additional benefits.