Re: [Q] Re: Version of image-mode.el which doesn't use format-alist
>>>> "Ville" == Ville Skytt <Ville>
writes:
> > When using this image-mode.el, starting up XEmacs spits out
> messages to > the console like these: > Loading image-mode...
> > Loading image-mode...done > I wonder if this could be avoided
> somehow?
> I don't know; I have no idea why it would do this if other
> modes don't.
Ville> Anybody?
Other modes _do_ do this if they're called early enough. I forget how
that happens offhand. Does it happen with -vanilla?
> A better fix might be for image-mode-install to just remove the
> entries from format-alist; IIRC, the consensus was that they
> shouldn't have been there in the first place.
I think this is best.
Ville> Yep, that's how I've understood the consensus too. But
Ville> removing stuff from format-alist sounds a bit scary to me;
Ville> that might cause problems eg. if we later for some reason
Ville> decide to put the entries back there.
This stuff was just plain broken; having image-mode-install take them
out isn't going to break things worse. As long as users get what they
expect, they aren't going to put those back into format-alist, and we
definitely will not do so.
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