From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Get the actual width/height of an image Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 02:13:40 +0200 Message-ID: <878sdbyk0b.fsf@ebih.ebihd> References: <28F86650-5F8B-41EC-BC39-54B083B1E394@gmail.com> <87y2lc3wt0.fsf@ebih.ebihd> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="18661"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:Dyl9cXGQHJOVvuSXvZpCEYH3u9w= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 15 02:14:09 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kHybo-0004kL-VV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2020 02:14:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39870 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kHybo-0002z7-20 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2020 20:14:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43240) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kHybX-0002z1-Jb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2020 20:13:51 -0400 Original-Received: from static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de ([116.202.254.214]:43118 helo=ciao.gmane.io) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kHybV-0006BY-Ua for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2020 20:13:51 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kHybS-0004LF-3y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2020 02:13:46 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/09/14 15:49:52 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:124053 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: >> I think Emacs is moving away from ImageMagick and >> toward "self-implemented" image manipulation &ct. >> functions. Not that IM has "gotten rusty" -- it >> isn't preferred from an elisp perspective which >> could be important in terms of portability to >> other Emacsen. > > Actually, yes, part of the reason is that it has > gotten rusty, IIRC. Well, if that is the reason perhaps efforts should be made to remove the rust (actually, things that you use typically don't rust) rather than have every software project's team of developers implementing their own way of getting the dimensions of an image? ;) -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 https://dataswamp.org/~incal