From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Image mode Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 11:50:37 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87k5yxeg19.fsf@jurta.org> <45C70ECD.70208@gmail.com> <45C72724.4000800@gmail.com> <45C78085.9080808@gmail.com> <45C84833.7070203@gnu.org> <7dbe73ed0702060221t31abcn30a2c06c1ec89929@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1170780671 28415 80.91.229.12 (6 Feb 2007 16:51:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 16:51:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juanma Barranquero , emacs-devel@gnu.org, "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" , Jason Rumney To: "Mathias Dahl" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 06 17:51:02 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HETX1-000096-GG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2007 17:50:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HETX1-0003Lg-8z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2007 11:50:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HETWq-0003La-0H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2007 11:50:48 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HETWn-0003LN-Gb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2007 11:50:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HETWn-0003LK-An for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2007 11:50:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mercure.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.24.67]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1HETWl-0006UQ-9j; Tue, 06 Feb 2007 11:50:43 -0500 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02EF12CF20C; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 11:50:43 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (faina.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.26.177]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id E376F3FE1; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 11:50:37 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id D37E56C7F4; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 11:50:37 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <7dbe73ed0702060221t31abcn30a2c06c1ec89929@mail.gmail.com> (Mathias Dahl's message of "Tue\, 6 Feb 2007 11\:21\:03 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-2.82, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -2.82) X-DIRO-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:66021 Archived-At: >> As Emacs is primarily a text editor, not an image viewer, I don't think >> that the extra step for viewing an image we have now is as bad as some >> people are making out. > I know that we are mostly discussing a couple of special scenarios > here, but I still want to point out that we should not forget about > packages like `thumbs.el' and `tumme.el', where the user *want* to > display images. Let's hope those will be left uncrippeled. Of course, these are completely separate matters. Stefan