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Re: Image-conversion shims
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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Re: Image-conversion shims |
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Mon, 30 Sep 2019 06:12:03 +0200 |
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Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> Uhm... what about... image-use-external-converter?
>
> SGTM.
OK; done.
> But that means the command strings are restricted in what they can
> use, because split-string has some limitations that aren't immediately
> evident. So if you want to leave this stuff as-is, at least we should
> say something in the doc string of image-converter--converters to that
> effect that; e.g., I think quotes should not be allowed there.
Stefan M. suggested using a list instead of a string, and I think I'll
make that adjustment.
> Maybe. It sounds a bit too convoluted to me, and I hoped for a
> simpler solution...
Me too, but I don't see one at the moment.
> Actually, why not simply add the relevant extensions to
> auto-mode-alist, causing them to invoke image-mode?
But when do we do that? To determine what the list of supported formats
is, we have to run `image-converter--probe' (etc). But we don't know
whether we need to do that until we know that we're going to load an
unsupported image format. :-/
I.e., we want ("*.webp" . image-mode) in auto-mode-alist, but we can't
put it there before we've called "gm convert -list format", and we don't
do that until we call `create-image' with image-use-external-converter
non-nil, which won't be called since we don't have a mapping from
"*.webp" to image-mode.
Very chicken and egg.
Hm... One possibility would be to do away with
(setq image-use-external-converter t)
as a user-level thing, and instead tell them to do
(image-external-converter-mode)
in ~/.emacs, which would do the probing and then altering
auto-mode-alist. Hm. Perhaps that's a pretty clean idea? Hm... I
think so. Except that switching the mode off would have to remove the
entries from auto-mode-alist again, which sounds slightly destructive.
Uhm. Perhaps map .wepb etc to a new image-mode-external that should
just be a mode that inherits from image-mode, but would do nothing if
the image-external-converter-mode has been toggled off?
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- Re: Image-conversion shims, (continued)
- Re: Image-conversion shims, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2019/09/28
- Re: Image-conversion shims, Stefan Monnier, 2019/09/28
- Re: Image-conversion shims, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/09/28
- Re: Image-conversion shims, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/09/28
- Re: Image-conversion shims, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/09/28
- Re: Image-conversion shims, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/09/29
- Re: Image-conversion shims, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/09/29
- Re: Image-conversion shims, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/09/29
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- Re: Image-conversion shims, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/09/30
- Re: Image-conversion shims, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/09/30
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