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Re: Edit images
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Edit images |
Date: |
Sat, 03 Mar 2007 19:59:06 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.94 (gnu/linux) |
"Mathias Dahl" <address@hidden> writes:
>> > It would be very good if there in image-mode where some key/menu
>> > binding for editing the image in an external application.
>>
>> What would the use case be?
>
> Are you serious?
>
> I am browsing images in Emacs, using Dired maybe. I happen to
> stumble upon an image. While in image-mode I decide I want to edit
> the image for whatever reason. Voila, your use case! :)
Then I delete the buffer, returning to my browser, and start editing
the image from there.
Starting the editor from the image buffer would be quite inconvenient
since then I would get an inconsistency between displayed buffer and
file on disk, requiring me to fiddle with revert-buffer and similar
stuff.
It would be also quite unusual if I called an image _editor_ that I
would require to display the image _afterwards_ again with Emacs.
Most image editors should be better at displaying an image than Emacs.
So killing the buffer would be a natural thing to do, anyway.
Postponing that until after the image edit is just asking for trouble.
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum