From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Mathias Dahl" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: image-mode showing text title/description/etc Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 10:28:32 +0200 Message-ID: <7dbe73ed0705240128i65deb79fl76ffb7e6121ed6e7@mail.gmail.com> References: <87myzvmadt.fsf@zip.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179995346 9188 80.91.229.12 (24 May 2007 08:29:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 08:29:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Kevin Ryde" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 24 10:29:02 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hr8gu-0006Rb-EK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 10:29:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hr8gs-0007he-Iq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 04:28:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hr8go-0007hM-6E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 04:28:54 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hr8gm-0007h7-Ic for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 04:28:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hr8gm-0007h1-8t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 04:28:52 -0400 Original-Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.225]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hr8gk-0004Pi-VR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 04:28:51 -0400 Original-Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 55so72595wri for ; Thu, 24 May 2007 01:28:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=OjVY5k3KhSgQgSjYPcqFDKXRamJAC7u6tyT32pauSL3Zuo0oq5r+NJL9tpX3f6kcD1p+ITTxTZPG6LGNQSdig0gfA2v5xHrwHU9hiCriF0dB8X6sAG6OJH+2GNkEUfHeMF3Ii/kssPpk5W7qsfFbsmzv3O0+meLVf9s4+Np3v5E= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=TcAP1YP3mrD6jOvTQUALj0DE+a5fnu8iGZKWXSbeP+s1jdKjwQNra+inE7Z6afT9GwOmcFeYI0apuVv6U4SqSMfuF3IuuzpYsqipTr0S8l9zvjbld4u5mA+t2X6fq8U/aUr72aI+oWLnGkhQL/4XKg7bdvfa2/ClLmBSLjTyHAw= Original-Received: by 10.78.118.5 with SMTP id q5mr394172huc.1179995312057; Thu, 24 May 2007 01:28:32 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.78.75.13 with HTTP; Thu, 24 May 2007 01:28:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87myzvmadt.fsf@zip.com.au> Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 (Google crawlbot) 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:71710 Archived-At: > This is my idea to have image-mode display text from an image. > > The motivation is that showing an image title is clearly a good thing, > and then showing author, long description, and copyright info are all > pretty useful. But I'm not inclined to go into great detail about image > characteristics, there's tools for doing that already, just stick to the > text bits. Just in case you did not know this, image-dired.el has "tagging" capabilities (think of them as categories or keywords if you want), and one could imagine your hack showing these tags as well as the other information you are talking about. image-dired.el has a lot of functions for handling these tags, writing them, listing them etc.