Re: Image mode

[Chong Yidong]

address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:

[ For a jpeg image saved as foo.c ]

> - Or file.c is an image which is NOT valid C code (e.g. jpeg), in 
> which case c-mode is a bad choice!! So in this case, why should
> we show the file in c-mode ?  Why not fundamental-mode or hexl-mode?
> OTOH, I'm not sure whether image(-minor)-mode should be applied here.

I think that in this, case, we should avoid being too smart for our
own good.  After all, our autodetection heuristics are not foolproof.
For example, a text file containing just the string "GIF89a" will be
autodetected as a gif file!  If the filename indicates it is a text
file, we should respect that.