From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Putting auto-image-file-mode in Options menu Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 23:37:49 +0200 Message-ID: <01c533de$Blat.v2.4$88943de0@zahav.net.il> References: <87acp8i6f1.fsf@jurta.org> <87ll8qap2h.fsf@jurta.org> <87mzt3h43k.fsf@jurta.org> <87is3mq9ap.fsf@jurta.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1112046933 3390 80.91.229.2 (28 Mar 2005 21:55:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 21:55:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 28 23:55:30 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DG2CD-0005mU-Ty for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 23:54:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DG2SO-0005oe-Cv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:11:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DG2RX-0005jG-Az for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:10:44 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DG2RM-0005dl-HK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:10:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DG2RM-0005Vh-4K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:10:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.41.67] (helo=mx20.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.34) id 1DG211-0007Nb-Fu; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 16:43:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.66] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DG214-00028y-Jk; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 16:43:22 -0500 Original-Received: from zaretski (IGLD-83-130-243-227.inter.net.il [83.130.243.227]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.5.6-GR) with ESMTP id AVW60437 (AUTH halo1); Mon, 28 Mar 2005 23:41:09 +0200 (IST) Original-To: miles@gnu.org X-Mailer: emacs 22.0.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 2.4 In-reply-to: (message from Miles Bader on Tue, 29 Mar 2005 05:44:04 +0900) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:35268 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:35268 > Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 05:44:04 +0900 > From: Miles Bader > Cc: juri@jurta.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, > miles@gnu.org > > On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:25:29 -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: > > BTW, shouldn't "image-file.el" (the source file for `auto-image-mode') > > be moved to lisp/obsolete, now that image-mode is preferred? > > > > I don't know if it is totally obsolete. Does anyone think it > > isn't? > > I'll note my experience: I actually use `auto-image-mode' a lot > (surprised Stefan? :), mostly for a quick peek at images in a > directory I'm visiting witih dired, and image-mode seems to work great > for that case. On MS-Windows, auto-image-mode helps me view image files for which no standard viewer comes with the OS. PPM images are a case in point.