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SY> OK. Is that on anybody's todo list? I think this should be SY> taken care of _before_ this release goes public. image-mode is in the packages, right? image-mode problems are unrelated to the release. Show me that it's fixed, and I'll consider a patch to format-alist. In any case, we have _no_ labor committed to doing the things that "should" be done, and we have a strong consensus for release. So I did. The release _is_ "public"; I'm not going to take it back now. The criterion for promotion from "gamma" to "stable" is exactly that: don't crash, don't destroy data. "Working image-mode" is a feature, and IMHO lack of it should not delay promotion to stable. (But that's mostly Vin's decision.) SY> IMO, this kind of customization would be beyond the newbie SY> user. Especially seeing as though it doesn't seem to be SY> documented anywhere. Something should be done about that, but there are far more important things on my personal todo list, like teaching custom about Mule fonts or at least documenting how to break one leg of `custom-set-faces'. In any case, AFAIK the image-mode functions autoload, so just do M-x image-mode. SY> In case anyone is interested, I've been 'autodetecting images' SY> since about 21.2.30-something with no image-mode problems. Sure. But that mode allows a lot more than just detect and display, and it was silently trashing some files or something. It wasn't just randomly removed from that alist. It assaulted somebody and was sent to Coventry for its crime because nobody was willing to fix it properly. If you want to add it to 21.5 and see what happens, fine with me[1]. Eventually I'll look at the file(s) and look up the threads. But for 21.4, paranoia rules. Footnotes: [1] But some people object to adding stuff to format-alist on general principles. -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."