From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Putting auto-image-file-mode in Options menu Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:01:32 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87acp8i6f1.fsf@jurta.org> <87wtsbbrlt.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <87ll8qap2h.fsf@jurta.org> <87mzt3h43k.fsf@jurta.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111341751 11018 80.91.229.2 (20 Mar 2005 18:02:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 18:02:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 20 19:02:31 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DD4kr-0008U2-84 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 19:02:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DD51n-0003WH-DG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:19:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DD4za-00014I-IJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:17:38 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DD4zU-0000zl-VS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:17:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DD4zU-0000z8-ES for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:17:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DD4k1-0003eu-Rv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:01:34 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DD4k0-0006Zp-GT; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:01:32 -0500 Original-To: David Kastrup In-reply-to: (message from David Kastrup on Sun, 20 Mar 2005 01:54:24 +0100) 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:34833 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34833 If you used an overlay instead of text properties, there would be no necessity to modify the buffer. That is true. However, copying the image to another buffer would only get you text. That's why I decided to make it a text property.