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image-mode: advertize viewing an image as hex less eagerly

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 51961 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Subject: bug#51961: image-mode: advertize viewing an image as hex less eagerly
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2021 08:32:49 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> There is a minority of image types where it is obviously useful,
>> i.e. XPM and similar formats where the image is actually just a plain
>> text file.  I think we could consider keeping the message for those.
>
> SVG is the prominent example of those where there's a significant
> ambiguity in the user's intent.

Yup.  I think we should keep the message for SVG and XPM and ditch if
for everything else.  (If there's more of these formats, we can add them
back.  Perhaps make a defcustom to allow tweaking?)

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