Re: [Q] Re: Version of image-mode.el which doesn't use format-alist

> Yep, that's how I've understood the consensus too. But removing stuff > from format-alist sounds a bit scary to me; that might cause problems > eg. if we later for some reason decide to put the entries back there. > How about if the old defuns were put back into image-mode, but as dummy > `make-obsolete'd ones that don't do anything? Would that work? No. So long as the format-alist entries remain, the associated functions must change the data such that the beginning of the data no longer matches the specified regexp. Otherwise, the functions will just be called again, resulting in an infinite loop. Consequently, a no-op won't work.