From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Image-conversion shims
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 17:01:00 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8336gddgtf.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874l0tew98.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Mon, 30 Sep 2019 15:42:11 +0200)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 15:42:11 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > I don't think I understand why we can't put the association in
> > auto-mode-alist before running "gm convert". Please elaborate why.
>
> If we put (say) .webp into auto-mode-alist, but we can't read .webp
> files, then image-mode will end up issuing an error when called on these
> files.
I thought when image-mode is invoked, the external converter is called
automagically, no?
> Besides, what formats "gm convert" supports changes over time. By
> consulting it, auto-mode-alist will be automatically updated without us
> having to do anything.
Yes, but I think it's better to have a solution that is 99% correct
and simple, rather than one that is 100% and much more complex. After
all, this is somewhat obscure use case, at least for now.
> > Not "do nothing", but display an error message saying this image
> > format is unsupported, IMO.
>
> Yup. I meant "do nothing" in the image-mode context, which means "show
> the data as raw bytes and signal an error".
Right.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-30 14:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-28 20:06 Image-conversion shims Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-28 20:37 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-09-28 21:20 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-29 6:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-28 21:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-09-28 21:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-28 23:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-29 0:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-29 7:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-29 11:44 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-29 11:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-30 4:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-30 7:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-30 13:42 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-30 14:01 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-10-01 12:06 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-01 12:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-30 17:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-10-01 12:08 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-01 13:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-10-06 20:58 ` Juri Linkov
2019-10-07 1:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-07 18:48 ` Juri Linkov
2019-10-08 16:06 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-08 17:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-10-09 19:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-09 19:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-10-14 4:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-14 19:27 ` Juri Linkov
2019-10-14 19:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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