Re: Image mode

[David Kastrup]

"Juanma Barranquero" <address@hidden> writes:

> On 2/5/07, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Files for which the user is likely surprised that they are image
>> files.  It seems like inappropriate file extensions (either those
>> suggesting a different major mode, or those suggesting nothing at all)
>> would be a good indicator.
>
> OK, but then we go back to the start: JPG, JPEG, TIF, TIFF, PNG, GIF,
> XBM, etc. are also valid image extensions, not only their downcased
> variants.

image-file-name-extensions could be matched independent of case.
Maybe this would even be a workable idea for auto-mode-alist (there
are actually rather few extensions, like ".Z", where there would be
some argument against it).

-- 
David Kastrup