From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Putting auto-image-file-mode in Options menu Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:19:15 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87br9l10um.fsf@jurta.org> References: <87acp8i6f1.fsf@jurta.org> <87wtsbbrlt.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <87ll8qap2h.fsf@jurta.org> <877jka8jtg.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110896579 26602 80.91.229.2 (15 Mar 2005 14:22:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:22:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 15 15:22:58 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DBCvj-0007bc-Bx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:21:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DBDBc-0003tj-1L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:38:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DBCoP-0006wb-Di for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:14:21 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DBCoL-0006t5-0T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:14:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DBCoH-0006mu-81 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:14:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [194.126.101.111] (helo=MXR-4.estpak.ee) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DBCTi-00089m-Bf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 08:52:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.neti.ee (80-235-32-24-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.32.24]) by MXR-4.estpak.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84F2713B6A5; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:52:56 +0200 (EET) Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-Reply-To: <877jka8jtg.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 14 Mar 2005 08:07:22 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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 X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:34601 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34601 Stefan Monnier writes: > I admit that I've never opened a png file in Emacs, so for png it might be > OK, but in general there are several "image formats" which are quite > viewable/editable in Emacs. > > OTOH I find auto-image-file-mode of very dubious utility: you can barely > look at the image (it's a bit better now with partial-line scrolling, but > it's still much more clunky than any other image-viewing tool), and you > can't do anything more (crop/zoom/rotate/save in another format, ...). True, Emacs is not intended to be an image editor (at least, not in TODO list now :-) But editing binary image files is not useful either. And even when this is necessary, editing binary files is always safer with find-file-literally. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/