From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Image mode Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 23:54:00 +0100 Message-ID: <85zm7qzylz.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87k5yxeg19.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1170802469 31642 80.91.229.12 (6 Feb 2007 22:54:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 22:54:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, Chris Moore , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 06 23:54:22 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 1HEZCf-0006Gc-Qj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2007 23:54:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HEZCf-0006kt-Nj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2007 17:54:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HEZCT-0006kg-UM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2007 17:54:09 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HEZCR-0006kI-1b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2007 17:54:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HEZCQ-0006kF-Pz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2007 17:54:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-in-02.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.42]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HEZCP-0003OK-Kk; Tue, 06 Feb 2007 17:54:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-in-04-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-04-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.16]) by mail-in-02.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 260402D7FBC; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 23:54:04 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail-in-08.arcor-online.net (mail-in-08.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.48]) by mail-in-04-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB73AABD55; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 23:54:03 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-054-156.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.54.156]) by mail-in-08.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9DE6225056; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 23:54:03 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 3EBD21C4CE1D; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 23:54:00 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue\, 06 Feb 2007 12\:09\:13 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.93 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:66032 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > No it can't, but the fact that I've seen the extension and still > want to open the image means that I'm willing to trust the image > library to display this file, > > Not necessarily. You might not even know what an image library is. > The only conclusion we can reliably draw is that you trust display of > the image. Well, so what? If we don't consider the user's trust relevant, the only solution can be to never display an image, ever. Because it _will_ be the user who decides in the end which images will get displayed. Let's not go back to Emacs 20. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum