From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A few issues with thumbs.el
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 01:40:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f7ccd24b050612164035ffe17f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2hdg40wg2.fsf@gmail.com>
> I don't understand why we couldn't just leave this to the user to
> configure this, instead of trying to have more or less complex logic,
> trying to figure this out automatically. `find-dired' has the same
> problem in that it will find (haha) the wrong "find" on w32. It also
> has more or less hard-coded syntax in it.
Well, on one hand convert, unlike find, is potentially dangerous if
used by accident; however, I agree that the chance of executing it in
such a way that it "works" and destroys user data is abysmally small.
My main argument (but I won't argue much :-) is that it seems a bit
silly (both for convert.exe and find.exe) to set up a variable with a
value that we *know* it is wrong. I'd rather have *-convert-program
set to nil that to "C:/windows/convert.exe". ImageMagick's convert.exe
is simply *not* going to end in %windir% for any noticeable percentage
of Windows users.
> Juanma, you know how tumme.el currently does this; that works quite
> well, does it not?
Manual configuration is good, of course. More good that wrong
automatic configuration, less good that correct automatic
configuration :-)
--
/L/e/k/t/u
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-12 23:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-25 15:18 A few issues with thumbs.el Juanma Barranquero
2005-05-25 22:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-05-26 0:40 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-05-26 3:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-05-26 8:17 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-05-26 14:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-05-26 9:37 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-05-26 14:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-05-26 14:19 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-05-26 16:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-05-26 18:22 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-05-26 19:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-05-26 22:49 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-05-26 23:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-05-27 7:45 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-05-27 14:19 ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-27 14:45 ` Juri Linkov
2005-05-28 11:53 ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-28 18:00 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-05-28 21:03 ` Robert J. Chassell
2005-05-29 2:48 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-05-29 20:27 ` Robert J. Chassell
2005-05-29 21:48 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-05-30 0:42 ` Robert J. Chassell
2005-05-29 12:04 ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-29 15:08 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-05-30 10:03 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-05-30 18:57 ` Juri Linkov
2005-05-30 20:29 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-05-30 20:38 ` David Kastrup
2005-05-30 21:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-05-30 21:20 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-05-31 17:46 ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-31 23:20 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-09 2:00 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-09 13:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-06-09 13:35 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-09 14:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-06-09 14:44 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-09 15:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-06-12 9:13 ` Mathias Dahl
2005-06-12 23:40 ` Juanma Barranquero [this message]
2005-06-12 10:45 ` Mathias Dahl
2005-06-12 23:46 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-13 7:12 ` Mathias Dahl
2005-06-13 7:28 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-10 0:14 ` Richard Stallman
2005-06-10 0:38 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-10 12:37 ` Mathias Dahl
2005-06-10 14:27 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-10 15:06 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-12 9:01 ` Mathias Dahl
2005-06-12 10:30 ` Henrik Enberg
2005-06-12 14:02 ` Mathias Dahl
2005-06-12 15:33 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2005-06-13 6:02 ` Juri Linkov
2005-06-13 7:11 ` Mathias Dahl
2005-06-13 7:28 ` Mathias Dahl
2005-06-13 21:48 ` Daniel Brockman
2005-06-14 12:53 ` Mathias Dahl
2005-06-13 8:44 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-06-13 14:21 ` Mathias Dahl
2005-06-13 22:03 ` Daniel Brockman
2005-06-13 15:03 ` Richard Stallman
2005-06-13 16:56 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2005-06-13 23:38 ` Richard Stallman
2005-06-12 18:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-06-13 6:01 ` Juri Linkov
2005-06-13 15:02 ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-26 0:48 ` Juanma Barranquero
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