Re: Edit images

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

David Kastrup wrote:

>> I am browsing images in Emacs, using Dired maybe. I happen to
>> stumble upon an image. While in image-mode I decide I want to edit
>> the image for whatever reason. Voila, your use case! :)
> 
> Then I delete the buffer, returning to my browser, and start editing
> the image from there.
> 
> Starting the editor from the image buffer would be quite inconvenient
> since then I would get an inconsistency between displayed buffer and
> file on disk, requiring me to fiddle with revert-buffer and similar
> stuff.
> 
> It would be also quite unusual if I called an image _editor_ that I
> would require to display the image _afterwards_ again with Emacs.
> Most image editors should be better at displaying an image than Emacs.
> 
> So killing the buffer would be a natural thing to do, anyway.
> Postponing that until after the image edit is just asking for trouble.


Would it not be good to have a command that did the equivalent of this?