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dired-view-file vs. emacs -nw

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Subject: bug#73727: closed (Re: bug#73727: dired-view-file vs. emacs -nw)
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2024 10:18:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#73727: dired-view-file vs. emacs -nw

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 73727 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Cc: 73727-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#73727: dired-view-file vs. emacs -nw
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2024 12:16:51 +0200

> Cc: 73727 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 12:28:14 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> 
> > From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
> > Cc: 73727 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> > Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 16:16:22 +0800
> > 
> > All I know is a couple more erroneous keystroks, and one ends up
> > accidentally editing one of these files, with its regexp parser choking
> > long lines... might end up using all the CPU...
> 
> dired-view-file visits the file in read-only mode, so you are not
> supposed to edit it unless you really mean to...
> 
> IOW, it sounds like there was some cockpit error in your case, and you
> somehow decided that it's Emacs's fault.  It isn't.

No substantial new information or comments about this in more than 2
weeks, so I'm now closing this bug.

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From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: dired-view-file vs. emacs -nw
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 18:41:48 +0800

v runs the command dired-view-file which works great even on images etc.
except when the user is using emacs -nw, in which case it just spews the
a lot of binary stuff on the screen which the user was not expecting.
Therefore it should say "xyz.jpg cannot be shown properly on your
terminal." (If they really want to see the bytes, they can use
find-file.)

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