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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Putting auto-image-file-mode in Options menu
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 08:07:22 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877jka8jtg.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ll8qap2h.fsf@jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Mon, 14 Mar 2005 03:23:02 +0200")

> Indeed, auto-image-file-mode is useful only for viewing images.
> OTOH, editing image files as plain text in Emacs is a rare
> operation too.

Not that rare, especially for text-based image format, or to view/edit the
text in the header of a non-text image format.

> And even with auto-image-file-mode set to t,
> editing is possible after visiting them with find-file-literally.
> With all this said, I have a question: is there any reason not
> to turn auto-image-file-mode on by default?

I admit that I've never opened a png file in Emacs, so for png it might be
OK, but in general there are several "image formats" which are quite
viewable/editable in Emacs.

OTOH I find auto-image-file-mode of very dubious utility: you can barely
look at the image (it's a bit better now with partial-line scrolling, but
it's still much more clunky than any other image-viewing tool), and you
can't do anything more (crop/zoom/rotate/save in another format, ...).

> I would like to ask the same question for auto-compression-mode too.
> What is the reason not to turn it on by default?  How often people
> visit compressed files for editing without uncompressing?

Agreed.  `auto-compression-mode' should be ON by default.


        Stefan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-03-14 13:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-13  2:14 Putting auto-image-file-mode in Options menu Juri Linkov
2005-03-13 13:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-03-14  1:23   ` Juri Linkov
2005-03-14 10:21     ` David Kastrup
2005-03-15 13:18       ` Juri Linkov
2005-03-15 18:39       ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-16 17:55         ` Juri Linkov
2005-03-20  0:22           ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-20  0:54             ` David Kastrup
2005-03-20 18:01               ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-20 18:22                 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-21 17:30                   ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-20 21:47             ` Juri Linkov
2005-03-21 17:29               ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-27  1:39                 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-28 16:25                   ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-28 20:44                     ` Miles Bader
2005-03-28 21:37                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-03-29  3:00                         ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-29  3:01                       ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-22 20:43             ` Juri Linkov
2005-03-23  6:21               ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-23 20:48                 ` Juri Linkov
2005-03-25  6:43                   ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-18  0:37         ` Miles Bader
2005-03-14 13:07     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2005-03-15 13:19       ` Juri Linkov
2005-03-15 14:41         ` Stefan
2005-03-15 17:27           ` Juri Linkov
2005-03-15 18:39     ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-16 17:10       ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-03-17 23:01         ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-17 23:21           ` Stefan Monnier
2005-03-18 18:20             ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-27 23:18               ` auto-compression-mode (was: Putting auto-image-file-mode in Options menu) Juri Linkov
2005-03-28 22:53                 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-14  3:00 ` Putting auto-image-file-mode in Options menu Richard Stallman

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