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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org, Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Subject: Re: Image-conversion shims
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 06:53:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sgnwq65j.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv5zkxzon7.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 09 Oct 2019 15:53:04 -0400")

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> If the result is no worse than what we have in fundamental-mode, I think
> it's good.  It's likely going to be better: image-mode could emit
> a helpful message explaining which variable to set to enable the use of
> external converters or which external converters to install to be able
> to display the image, for example.

That's true.  OK, you've convinced me: We should go through the list of
file types the external converters offer and add the ones that make
sense (.webp, .bmp, .etc) to auto-mode-alist, and we should change
image-mode's messaging a bit.

>> We don't do that with other file types, so why with images?
>
> We use `perl-mode` even if there's no `perl` installed ;-)

We do, but perl-mode still works even if there's no perl installed.  :-)

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-14  4:53 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
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 [this message]
2019-10-14 19:27                             ` Juri Linkov
2019-10-14 19:41                               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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