Re: image.el doesn't associate image-mode with .JPG files

[Kim F. Storm]

Jason Rumney <address@hidden> writes:

> Richard Stallman wrote:
>>     > The answer is no, and I've chosen a different solution.
>>     > Please drop the subject.
>>     >   
>>
>>     If a developers mailing list cannot be used for discussing
>> development     ideas, then I think I might as well unsubscribe.
>>
>> Discussing an idea in a useful way does not include continuing to
>> pressure me after I've made a decision.

I would feel a "pressure" too if nobody agreed with me :-)

Everybody else who have expressed an opinion on this issue
here seem to agree that your decision is wrong.

> I'm sorry if you felt pressured, but it seemed premature to dismiss my
> suggestion the first time you did so, as the only alternative proposal
> offered was an incomplete regexp that did not cover all jpeg
> files. Kim and others since refined it into a better solution, and I
> agree that solution is a better one for most image files. 

But it _also_ have the risk of false matches!

>                                                           I still
> think there is a general underlying bug here though that is not
> specific to image files, but to transfer of files from sources that do
> not preserve case (ISO format CDs, DOS/Windows machines, SD Cards,
> floppy disks etc). 

Exactly.

And as we get more and more of such gadgets/ways of sharing files,
the implications of this bug will grow ...

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk