Subject: Re: bug#29584: imagemagick-types-inhibit does not result in correct image backend (minor)

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2017 13:25:54 -0500

adam plaice wrote:

> I think that the issue is caused by these lines (in the definition of
> image-toggle-display-image in image-mode.el):
>
>      (type (if (fboundp 'imagemagick-types)
>            'imagemagick
>          (image-type file-or-data nil data-p)))

Yes, see:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-diffs/2014-08/msg00039.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-08/msg00101.html

    This may be a kinda controversial change, since it now defaults to
    using imagemagick for images, if you have support for imagemagick.

    But this makes it possible to browse a typical
    directory-of-images-from-your-camera just by hitting `n' a lot, without
    a lot of futzing around, so I think it's a net win.

    Perhaps there should be an option to disable it if it annoys people.