Re: Image autodetection

[Jason Rumney]

Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> That would be a different change. As it is now, if we just change
> `image-mode' to `image-minor-mode' in `magic-mode-alist' (as was done
> in a previous proposed patch, now rejected), image files would be
> opened in fundamental mode + image minor mode, because as soon as a
> non-nil mode is returned when searching in `magic-mode-alist' the
> detection of major mode is finished (and so `auto-mode-alist' is
> bypassed). At least, that's what I remember from a test I did.

We have image-mode-maybe that uses image-mode for files that are 
unambiguously images, and image-minor-mode for files where there may be 
another appropriate mode. With some minor changes, it could be used in 
magic-mode-alist.