David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you are working through a slow X connection, accidentally visiting > an image file could be a very expensive mistake. In the past, > displaying an image that was overtall could really confuse Emacs. > This has become much better recently, but I don't know how the > situation is with overwide images.
Emacs can horizontally scroll images wider than the window width. > Anyway, there are ASCII-based image file formats like ASCII PBM, PGM, > PPM, PAM and XBM and XPM. Much more often than not, when I open such > files with Emacs, I really don't want to see the picture, but the > source text (to see comments, assignment of colors and palette, ranges > and so on). And using find-file-literally (even if we provided it in > the menus, where it currently isn't) does not cater overly gracefully > for the line endings in those files. No big problem when the DOS line endings are displayed after using find-file-literally. > I don't know how well auto-compression-mode deals with things like > missing compression commands. If it fails gracefully, enabling it by > default should not do much harm. With missing compression commands it displays an error message in the separate window with *jka-compr-error* buffer. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
