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From: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>
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Subject: Re: Problems viewing GIF file with find-file
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Glynn Clements writes:
 > I was using VM, which displays GIFs inline (but not those ones).

The VM image display problems are the same as everythiung else
that tried uses [gif :file "/foo"] instantiators--- the image-mode
stuff on format-alist hoses it.  Set format-alist to nil in .emacs
and restart XEmacs and the problem should go away.

I don't think image-mode decoders shoudl be on format-aliast
unless it offers some way to edit an image and encode it on
saves.

