Stefan Kangas writes: > Mathias Dahl writes: > >> It seems I knew about `image-mode' but perhaps it never crossed my mind >> to inherit from it. 16 years later, my memory fails me... >> >> At any rate I have nothing against it, if someone wants to give it a try. See the attached patch. Unsurprisingly, this makes `image-dired' feel quite a bit snappier, as we avoid a lot of unnecessary work.