From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Edit images Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 19:59:06 +0100 Message-ID: <85vehixif9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <45E9B463.2030909@gmail.com> <854pp2z032.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <7dbe73ed0703031014t37679848lb402146c7b0bcaee@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172948375 30168 80.91.229.12 (3 Mar 2007 18:59:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 18:59:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" , Emacs Devel To: "Mathias Dahl" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 03 19:59:27 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 1HNZS3-0003zq-2D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Mar 2007 19:59:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HNZS2-00085l-ND for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Mar 2007 13:59:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HNZRo-00082K-7e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Mar 2007 13:59:12 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HNZRl-000828-Qg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Mar 2007 13:59:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HNZRl-000825-Ki for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Mar 2007 13:59:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-in-03.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.43]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HNZRl-0004tc-4i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Mar 2007 13:59:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-09-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.21]) by mail-in-03.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0141276413; Sat, 3 Mar 2007 19:59:07 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail-in-08.arcor-online.net (mail-in-08.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.48]) by mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A20AF28EEF1; Sat, 3 Mar 2007 19:59:07 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-027-182.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.27.182]) by mail-in-08.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88BD92258F9; Sat, 3 Mar 2007 19:59:07 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 22A161C460D3; Sat, 3 Mar 2007 19:59:06 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <7dbe73ed0703031014t37679848lb402146c7b0bcaee@mail.gmail.com> (Mathias Dahl's message of "Sat\, 3 Mar 2007 19\:14\:40 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.94 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:67268 Archived-At: "Mathias Dahl" writes: >> > It would be very good if there in image-mode where some key/menu >> > binding for editing the image in an external application. >> >> What would the use case be? > > Are you serious? > > I am browsing images in Emacs, using Dired maybe. I happen to > stumble upon an image. While in image-mode I decide I want to edit > the image for whatever reason. Voila, your use case! :) Then I delete the buffer, returning to my browser, and start editing the image from there. Starting the editor from the image buffer would be quite inconvenient since then I would get an inconsistency between displayed buffer and file on disk, requiring me to fiddle with revert-buffer and similar stuff. It would be also quite unusual if I called an image _editor_ that I would require to display the image _afterwards_ again with Emacs. Most image editors should be better at displaying an image than Emacs. So killing the buffer would be a natural thing to do, anyway. Postponing that until after the image edit is just asking for trouble. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum