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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Date: 10 Jul 1997 21:00:07 +0200
In-Reply-To: Kyle Jones's message of "Thu, 10 Jul 1997 14:46:22 -0400 (EDT)"
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Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com> writes:

> XEmacs is a poor image viewer and an even worse image editor.

Agreed -- but I think there should be a way to say something like
`M-x show-image RET foo.gif RET' and that foo.gif gets shown.
No matter how poor XEmacs is, it /does/ has enough functionality for
such a basic operation.

As a practical example, a few weeks ago I was sent a PNG image.
XEmacs was practically the only tool on the system I could view it
with (at least that I was aware of) -- Xv and Netscape refused.

So I used something like:

(let ((e (make-extent 1 1)))
  (set-extent-begin-glyph ...........))

Now, that's not hard for me to write, but I cannot really expect a
newbie (or even an expert) to type something like that when she wants
to just view an image using XEmacs.

-- 
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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