Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you used an overlay instead of text properties, there would be no > necessity to modify the buffer. > > That is true. However, copying the image to another buffer would only > get you text.
Which is what would be appropriate when copying an XPM icon into a C source file. And since the C source file would not be in auto-image-mode to start with, I could not remove the imagery by turning auto-image-mode off. Other buffers are unlikely to retain the image when being saved and reloaded, unless their file name would also imply auto-image-mode. But I think it reasonable that you have to reload in that case. > That's why I decided to make it a text property. Funny. That's exactly the reason why I would have made the decision the other way round (and in fact, the preview-latex project uses overlays instead of text properties for this reason). I think that without special yank properties that would, say, cause the image to be included as an image in a HTML buffer and other locations, it is pointless to have this as a text property since the image will not usually survive saving and reloading in a different buffer. And since the image actually is the outcome of a _mode_, it would appear that the "is-an-image" state, being coupled with the mode, belongs to the buffer instead of the text. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
