From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: image-dired shows images as text Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:40:45 +1300 Message-ID: <18283.6557.427691.180556@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> References: <14409137.post@talk.nabble.com> <14425095.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1198201320 18794 80.91.229.12 (21 Dec 2007 01:42:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 01:42:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Mathias Dahl Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 21 02:42:02 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J5Wtm-0007Rz-Lx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 02:42:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J5WtT-00070i-13 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:41:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J5WtE-00070L-Cu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:41:28 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J5WtA-0006zo-Un for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:41:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J5WtA-0006zl-Pu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:41:24 -0500 Original-Received: from viper.snap.net.nz ([202.37.101.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J5WtA-0007CG-8f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:41:24 -0500 Original-Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (146.31.255.123.static.snap.net.nz [123.255.31.146]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D3223DA167; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:41:08 +1300 (NZDT) Original-Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9F9048FC6D; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:40:47 +1300 (NZDT) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 23.0.50.14 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:50264 Archived-At: > > Thumb could not be created for file... > > > > isn't very self explanatory. > > I know, I know, I know... Feel free to send a patch to emacs devel :) Instead of: (call-process shell-file-name nil nil nil shell-command-switch command) why not separate the command and switches and use: (call-process command nil nil nil command-switches) That way you'll get an error like: Searching for program: no such file or directory, convert -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob