From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Edit images Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 20:02:12 +0100 Message-ID: <45E9C634.6030701@gmail.com> References: <45E9B463.2030909@gmail.com> <854pp2z032.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <7dbe73ed0703031014t37679848lb402146c7b0bcaee@mail.gmail.com> <85vehixif9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172948567 30846 80.91.229.12 (3 Mar 2007 19:02:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 19:02:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel , Mathias Dahl To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 03 20:02:38 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HNZV6-0005KY-5X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Mar 2007 20:02:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HNZV5-00022x-F4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Mar 2007 14:02:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HNZUs-0001zG-E6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Mar 2007 14:02:22 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HNZUp-0001tq-RH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Mar 2007 14:02:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HNZUp-0001th-OP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Mar 2007 14:02:19 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HNZUo-0005HO-9y; Sat, 03 Mar 2007 14:02:18 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:62081 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HNZUk-0007M8-9C; Sat, 03 Mar 2007 20:02:16 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070221 Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 In-Reply-To: <85vehixif9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000721-1, 2007-03-03), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1HNZUk-0007M8-9C. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1HNZUk-0007M8-9C ebc9d270dbcd70eecd9ee3de9e38e93b X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:67269 Archived-At: 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?