From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Image mode Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:22:09 -0500 Message-ID: <873b5fqjhq.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87k5yxeg19.fsf@jurta.org> <87iregmafd.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <86irefojcc.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <86tzxzn0bx.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <86ps8nmy95.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <86d54nmve9.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <868xfbmthh.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <39229.128.165.123.18.1170864622.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1171045355 20047 80.91.229.12 (9 Feb 2007 18:22:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 18:22:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, Richard Stallman , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chris Moore Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 09 19:22:29 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 1HFaOC-0003eq-Oj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 19:22:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HFaOC-0007uk-1f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:22:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HFaO1-0007t1-3g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:22:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HFaNz-0007rd-Oe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:22:15 -0500 Original-Received: from south-station-annex.mit.edu ([18.72.1.2]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HFaNz-0000p3-KM; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:22:15 -0500 Original-Received: from grand-central-station.mit.edu (GRAND-CENTRAL-STATION.MIT.EDU [18.7.21.82]) by south-station-annex.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.9.2) with ESMTP id l19IMDG2006130; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 13:22:13 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from outgoing-legacy.mit.edu (OUTGOING-LEGACY.MIT.EDU [18.7.22.104]) by grand-central-station.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.9.2) with ESMTP id l19IMAOs018495; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 13:22:10 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from localhost (MAIN-TWELVE-THREE-THIRTY-FIVE.MIT.EDU [18.19.6.80]) ) by outgoing-legacy.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id l19IM9mR028095; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 13:22:09 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from cyd by localhost with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HFaNt-0000ZE-00; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:22:09 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Chris Moore's message of "Fri\, 09 Feb 2007 18\:24\:04 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.93 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.42 X-Spam-Score: -2.599 X-detected-kernel: Solaris 9.1 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:66184 Archived-At: Chris Moore writes: > > I disagree. Firefox is primarily for displaying text, and > > Openoffice.org is commonly used for editing formatted text. > > Firefox is a web browser (it views but doesn't edit a mixture of text > and images) and Openoffice.org is an ofice suite (allowing the editing > of text, spreadsheets, databases, drawings, etc). The important point is that these programs have to make a choice about whether to handle a file as an image or as text, just as Emacs does. > What about files with extensions of ".blah"? If they contain image > data, are they misnamed? I would expect to be safe opening a .blah > file, knowing that it's not a recognised extension, I feel safe > knowing it'll be opening in fundamental-mode. It seems several people > on the list would rather display this .blah file as an image. It's not merely an idiosyncrasy of the people on this mailing list. Firefox, for example, has settled on this behavior: i.e., handle a file as an image if it is autodetected as an image and we can't find another match for it in (Firefox's equivalent of) auto-mode-alist.