Re: Image autodetection

["Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com>]

On 1/30/07, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> Actually, the way I see it the only real advantage of image-minor-mode is
> that if a C file gets wrongly detected as a GIF file, it doesn't really
> matter because the C mode is still activated and you just get a bunch of
> spurious extra commands to display the "image".

That would be a different change. As it is now, if we just change
`image-mode' to `image-minor-mode' in `magic-mode-alist' (as was done
in a previous proposed patch, now rejected), image files would be
opened in fundamental mode + image minor mode, because as soon as a
non-nil mode is returned when searching in `magic-mode-alist' the
detection of major mode is finished (and so `auto-mode-alist' is
bypassed). At least, that's what I remember from a test I did.

> Looks good to me.

Great.

                    /L/e/k/t/u