Re: Image mode

[Jason Rumney]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> It would make a lot of sense to add entries to auto-mode-alist so as to open
> *.xpm and *.xbm in "c-mode + image-minor-mode".  Similarly, postscript-mode
> (c|sh)ould automatically turn on image-minor-mode.
>   

This is how it was before the magic-mode-alist changes were made. My 
recent patch to use image-mode-maybe instead of image-mode in 
magic-mode-alist should have restored this feature.

The problem is now people are proposing to use image-mode-maybe for a 
different purpose, and when I brought up that the change would break the 
original use of image-mode-maybe, the suggestion was to make the change 
anyway and introduce a new function to do the old job of 
image-mode-maybe. This seems backwards to me, which is why I suggest we 
leave things as they are and get on with the release, and redesign 
things properly after the release.