From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Image-conversion shims Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 14:08:38 +0200 Message-ID: <87wodo8y7t.fsf@gnus.org> References: <87v9tctcca.fsf@gnus.org> <87impct2xf.fsf@gnus.org> <83zhinfufb.fsf@gnu.org> <87ftkfnx7a.fsf@gnus.org> <83eezzfh8c.fsf@gnu.org> <8736gea0do.fsf@gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="228266"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 01 14:09:50 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iFGyT-000x9d-Cc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2019 14:09:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41214 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iFGyS-0002vz-5d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2019 08:09:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39953) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iFGxT-0002Zz-57 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2019 08:08:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iFGxS-0005Xb-4s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2019 08:08:47 -0400 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]:43538) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iFGxR-0005UY-Tp; Tue, 01 Oct 2019 08:08:46 -0400 Original-Received: from cm-84.212.202.86.getinternet.no ([84.212.202.86] helo=marnie) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iFGxL-0002FL-5n; Tue, 01 Oct 2019 14:08:41 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 30 Sep 2019 13:27:14 -0400") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 80.91.231.51 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:240436 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> I.e., we want ("*.webp" . image-mode) in auto-mode-alist, but we can't >> put it there before we've called "gm convert -list format", > > Why? .webp is an image format, so it should be associated with > image-mode, whether we can display it or not (it's not like the > behavior would be much better if we don't and end up showing it in > fundamental-mode). For .webp I agree, but there's a bunch of formats that are really obscure. It would be nice if Emacs did the right thing if the user has switched the external image thing on, but some of them might otherwise be confusing. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no