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Re: Image mode
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Image mode |
Date: |
Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:47:05 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.93 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> The user has an idea about what Emacs will do with a file, and
> will judge based on that whether he wants it to open in Emacs in
> this manner.
>
> The beginning user sees .jpg and thinks "this is an image; Emacs
> will display it." If displaying that image will cause some sort of
> harm, he doesn't know any better.
But neither does Emacs. So there is no sense in Emacs making it more
complicated for the user to display an image.
> If Emacs does something different than the expected thing, there
> goes one component of security: user wariness.
>
> Most users are not wary of images.
That's their problem. And Emacs _can't_ be wary of images since its
knowledge about potential library problems is fuzzy and much weaker
than that of the library authors.
So Emacs can't help users to learn in a sensible manner. It can, at
best, disturb them.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
- Re: Image mode, (continued)
- Re: Image mode, Richard Stallman, 2007/02/07
- Re: Image mode, Richard Stallman, 2007/02/07
- Re: Image mode, Stuart D. Herring, 2007/02/07
- Re: Image mode, Chris Moore, 2007/02/09
- Re: Image mode, Stuart D. Herring, 2007/02/09
- Re: Image mode, Chong Yidong, 2007/02/09
- Re: Image mode, Richard Stallman, 2007/02/11
- Re: Image mode, Chris Moore, 2007/02/14
- Re: Image mode, Richard Stallman, 2007/02/13
- Re: Image mode, Richard Stallman, 2007/02/06
- Re: Image mode,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: Image mode, Richard Stallman, 2007/02/07
- Re: Image mode, Miles Bader, 2007/02/05
- Re: Image mode, Slawomir Nowaczyk, 2007/02/06
- Re: Image mode, Stefan Monnier, 2007/02/06
- Re: Image mode, Jason Rumney, 2007/02/06
- Re: Image mode, Chong Yidong, 2007/02/06
- Re: Image mode, Jason Rumney, 2007/02/06
- Re: Image mode, Chong Yidong, 2007/02/06
- Re: Image mode, Kim F. Storm, 2007/02/06
- Re: Image mode, Chong Yidong, 2007/02/06