From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [dooglus@gmail.com: display problem after renaming open image files] Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 08:41:01 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87ircfu4eo.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <868xd998qo.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <87zm5mz89q.fsf@stupidchicken.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1175949991 21329 80.91.229.12 (7 Apr 2007 12:46:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 12:46:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 07 14:45:47 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 1HaAII-0001vD-Ur for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Apr 2007 14:45:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HaALt-0000E6-GU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Apr 2007 08:49:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HaAJu-0005wt-2p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Apr 2007 08:47:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HaAJt-0005w8-NJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Apr 2007 08:47:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HaAJt-0005vq-FE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Apr 2007 08:47:05 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HaAGI-0001na-1d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Apr 2007 08:43:22 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HaAE1-0000MH-62; Sat, 07 Apr 2007 08:41:01 -0400 In-reply-to: <87zm5mz89q.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (message from Chong Yidong on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:55:13 -0400) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:69164 Archived-At: For all practical purposes, the current behavior is fine. After all, image-mode (currently) functions as an image viewer, not an image editor. So if you move the underlying image file, no one will be surprised that you can't view the image anymore! Plenty of image viewing programs have this behavior (see gqview for example.) When you visit a file in Emacs, looking at the buffer is not supposed to depend on the existence of the file. The contents of the file are supposed to be in the buffer. (That is what a buffer is for.) That is why this is so clearly a bug. If I agree to release without fixing this bug now, will you agree in return to fix the problem next month for Emacs 23?