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: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 03:23:02 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87ll8qap2h.fsf@jurta.org> References: <87acp8i6f1.fsf@jurta.org> <87wtsbbrlt.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 1110771396 8694 80.91.229.2 (14 Mar 2005 03:36:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 03:36:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 14 04:36:35 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DAgMy-0007B4-7u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 04:35:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DAgcY-0006kE-Ok for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 22:51:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DAgZc-0005bm-AZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 22:48:56 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DAgZN-0005W9-Pd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 22:48:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DAgZM-0005SQ-El for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 22:48:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [194.126.101.111] (helo=MXR-2.estpak.ee) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DAgDt-0006V8-CW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 22:26:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.neti.ee (80-235-32-192-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.32.192]) by MXR-2.estpak.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5811218E40B; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 05:26:26 +0200 (EET) Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-Reply-To: <87wtsbbrlt.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun, 13 Mar 2005 08:32:01 -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:34563 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34563 Stefan Monnier writes: >> There is already "Automatic File De/compression" menu item >> for auto-compression-mode in the Options menu, but no menu item >> for auto-image-file-mode. This looks like an unintentional omission. > > I think it's omitted because it's a very rarely used feature. Indeed, auto-image-file-mode is useful only for viewing images. OTOH, editing image files as plain text in Emacs is a rare operation too. And even with auto-image-file-mode set to t, editing is possible after visiting them with find-file-literally. With all this said, I have a question: is there any reason not to turn auto-image-file-mode on by default? I would like to ask the same question for auto-compression-mode too. What is the reason not to turn it on by default? How often people visit compressed files for editing without uncompressing? -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/