Re: format-alist mangled

Colin Rafferty <craffert(a)ms.com&gt; writes: Because they were creating many problems. Because of them, it was almost impossible to say edit an XPM file. They tried to do their stuff even on textual devices, which was clearly wrong. They even hooked into the insertion code so `C-x i' didn't work. The "format" decoding functions are designed for converting data for one format to another. If you convert something to image, it is no longer editable. If we wish to add such functionality, it will have to be done at a higher level.