Re: image-dired shows images as text

[Mathias Dahl <brakjoller@gmail.com>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> 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)
>
> These two methods are not exactly equivalent: in the first, `command'
> can be something understood and interpreted by a shell, including
> pipes, redirections, etc.  In the seconds, it must be a name of an
> executable program file.
>
> But I have no idea whether this difference is of any importance for
> the case in point.

Good points. And, again, patches are welcome.

If I get the time I might do something about this over the
holidays. It's largely a matter of how much it itches however...

/Mathias