On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:25:29 -0500, Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW, shouldn't "image-file.el" (the source file for `auto-image-mode') > be moved to lisp/obsolete, now that image-mode is preferred? > > I don't know if it is totally obsolete. Does anyone think it isn't?
I'll note my experience: I actually use `auto-image-mode' a lot (surprised Stefan? :), mostly for a quick peek at images in a directory I'm visiting witih dired, and image-mode seems to work great for that case. The case where image-mode isn't equivalent is where you use `insert-file' to insert an image -- auto-image-file will cause the inserted text to be covered with the image, but image-mode won't do anything (unless the user invokes it afterwards, and then it will only work if the image is the sole text in the buffer). I can't imagine that this distinction matters for programmatic use -- it would be just as easy, and maybe more straight-forward to call a dedicated `insert-image-file' function. For users, I suppose somebody might want to create a quick mini-slide-show in a buffer or something by inserting a bunch of image files, but ... I'm not sure I see this happening very often. [and of course a user could just as well call a dedicated insert-image-file function too.] -Miles -- Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
