From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: Re: image.el doesn't associate image-mode with .JPG files Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:00:50 -0400 Message-ID: References: <45849347.7010509@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206457292 19409 80.91.229.12 (25 Mar 2008 15:01:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:01:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, ihs_4664@yahoo.com, Miles Bader To: "Chris Moore" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 25 16:01:57 2008 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 1JeAex-0000GV-Ix for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:01:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JeAeM-0003Fn-Aw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:01:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JeAeG-0003DA-Mm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:01:12 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JeAeG-0003CF-4l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:01:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JeAeF-0003C2-Jr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:01:11 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JeAeF-0002Du-5M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:01:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mx10.gnu.org ([199.232.76.166]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JeAeE-0008AS-VI for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:01:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JeAeB-0002D9-JT for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:01:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mercure.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.24.67]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JeAeB-0002Cu-8Z; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:01:07 -0400 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D58C2CFA6B; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:01:06 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (faina.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.26.177]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id B96953FE0; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:00:50 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id A734C6C1B2; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:00:50 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Chris Moore's message of "Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:48:58 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-2.71, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -2.82, MC_TRANSFR 0.11) X-DIRO-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: 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:93417 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:21681 Archived-At: >> >>> I've made my decision about this, and I don't want to argue it >> >>> further. >> >> Does anybody agree with Richard on this one? >> >> > Technically I prefer Jason's solution, but I think in practice it's an >> > extremely minor issue. I've only ever had problems with uppercase >> > extensions on image files, so the less general fix of simply adding >> > appropriate entries to auto-mode-alist would suffice for me at least. >> >> I'd agree to that, but I understand Richard's answer to be "no it would be >> wrong to do that, let's never again consider it". > I just transferred another bunch of .JPG images from my phone, and they > still don't open as images in Emacs. > I remember there was a long argument about how to fix this, but it seems > nothing was done about it. Was that an oversight, or do we really not want > Emacs to be able to open .JPG images? Have you tried to set auto-mode-case-fold? Stefan