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 15:18:36 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87fyyx2fmr.fsf@jurta.org> References: <87acp8i6f1.fsf@jurta.org> <87wtsbbrlt.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <87ll8qap2h.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110896942 27927 80.91.229.2 (15 Mar 2005 14:29:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:29:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 15 15:29:01 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DBD1k-0008Vl-If for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:28:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DBDHd-0005hT-E3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:44:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DBCoT-0006yo-EH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:14:25 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DBCoL-0006tY-TE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:14:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DBCoK-0006mu-L9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:14:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [194.126.101.111] (helo=MXR-4.estpak.ee) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DBCTf-00089U-T5; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 08:52:56 -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 5557713B65F; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:52:53 +0200 (EET) Original-To: David Kastrup In-Reply-To: (David Kastrup's message of "Mon, 14 Mar 2005 11:21:36 +0100") 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:34602 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34602 David Kastrup writes: > If you are working through a slow X connection, accidentally visiting > an image file could be a very expensive mistake. In the past, > displaying an image that was overtall could really confuse Emacs. > This has become much better recently, but I don't know how the > situation is with overwide images. Emacs can horizontally scroll images wider than the window width. > Anyway, there are ASCII-based image file formats like ASCII PBM, PGM, > PPM, PAM and XBM and XPM. Much more often than not, when I open such > files with Emacs, I really don't want to see the picture, but the > source text (to see comments, assignment of colors and palette, ranges > and so on). And using find-file-literally (even if we provided it in > the menus, where it currently isn't) does not cater overly gracefully > for the line endings in those files. No big problem when the DOS line endings are displayed after using find-file-literally. > I don't know how well auto-compression-mode deals with things like > missing compression commands. If it fails gracefully, enabling it by > default should not do much harm. With missing compression commands it displays an error message in the separate window with *jka-compr-error* buffer. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/