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From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
To: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
Cc: tomas@tuxteam.de, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: filemananger for emacs with meta information about a file without opening it
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2022 06:22:34 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y2SFelV82eb22vhm@protected.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP_d_8X4nFoPn8D4EjPoPVNvvx6v_Y_Niw_3m-rO=4SaNq3GRQ@mail.gmail.com>

* Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> [2022-11-03 11:19]:
> On Thu, 3 Nov 2022 at 14:58, <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> 
> > > In Dired, one uses `y' to get basic information about the file without
> > > opening it. Often I use it for pictures to find out the resolution.
> >
> > How do you find out a picture's resolution without opening the file?
> 
> Nohow. The opening is just not perceived by the user. The pedantic
> description would probably be “without visiting in a buffer and
> without starting an associated interactive application”.

Of course something must read information in the file.

Other way to go is indexing pictures once and later searching within
the index.

-- 
Jean

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-11-04  3:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-31 20:49 filemananger for emacs with meta information about a file without opening it Uwe Brauer
2022-11-02 12:26 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-11-03  9:14   ` Uwe Brauer
2022-11-03  9:20     ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-03 15:44       ` Uwe Brauer
2022-11-03 15:49         ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-04 13:05           ` Uwe Brauer
2022-11-04 13:43             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-04 17:48               ` Marcin Borkowski
2022-11-04  5:13     ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-11-04  7:28       ` Uwe Brauer
2022-11-04 16:00         ` Drew Adams
2022-11-05 13:50       ` Jean Louis
2022-11-05 21:05         ` Drew Adams
2022-11-03  6:49 ` Jean Louis
2022-11-03  7:56   ` tomas
2022-11-03  8:17     ` Yuri Khan
2022-11-03  8:44       ` tomas
2022-11-03 11:15       ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-11-04  3:22       ` Jean Louis [this message]
2022-11-04  3:21     ` Jean Louis
2022-11-03  9:01   ` Emanuel Berg

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