From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: dired-x and image viewer Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 10:49:54 -0600 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <4135FDB2.70300@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1094057960 5516 80.91.224.253 (1 Sep 2004 16:59:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 16:59:20 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 01 18:59:12 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C2YJR-0007VN-00 for ; Wed, 01 Sep 2004 18:50:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C2YOM-0006bF-Rw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Sep 2004 12:55:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C2YOB-0006ZD-UA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Sep 2004 12:55:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C2YO9-0006X2-9s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Sep 2004 12:55:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C2YO9-0006Wu-7X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Sep 2004 12:55:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.224.249] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C2YIx-0000OI-HZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Sep 2004 12:49:51 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C2YIw-0004Kg-00 for ; Wed, 01 Sep 2004 18:49:50 +0200 Original-Received: from 170.207.1.200 ([170.207.1.200]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 01 Sep 2004 18:49:50 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 170.207.1.200 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 01 Sep 2004 18:49:50 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.1.200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us 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: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:26698 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:26698 Karl Eichwalder wrote: > Tools like xloadimage or ghostview are hard coded in dired-x.el; by > default, both these tools are not available on some systems. > > For image formats like tif, jpeg, etc. I vote to switch to display (part > of ImageMagick and already used for png) and for PostScript gv might be > more appropriate than ghostview. It'd be easy enough to use executable-find to determine whether a program should be included as an alternative in a dired-guess-shell-alist-default entry or not. -- Kevin Rodgers