Re: filemananger for emacs with meta information about a file without opening it

[Yuri Khan]

On Thu, 3 Nov 2022 at 14:58, <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:

> > In Dired, one uses `y' to get basic information about the file without
> > opening it. Often I use it for pictures to find out the resolution.
>
> How do you find out a picture's resolution without opening the file?

Nohow. The opening is just not perceived by the user. The pedantic
description would probably be “without visiting in a buffer and
without starting an associated interactive application”.