GNU bug report logs - #8615
Please make sure v q removes the buffer for JPGs just like it does for other files

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Message #116 received at 8615 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 8615 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Subject: Re: bug#8615: Please make sure v q removes the buffer for JPGs just
	like it does for other files
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 03:04:36 +0200

>> This is a regression.  It makes special modes `image-mode', `archive-mode'
>> unusable when visited from dired because their keybindings are clobbered
>> with view's keybindings.
>
> That only happens if you use the `v' command instead of the ordinary
> `RET' command to view these files, right?
>
> If you're using the `v' command, you presumably want to see the files
> using `view-mode', since that's what that command is supposed to do.

Like jidanni, I used to type `v q SPC v q SPC v q SPC' to browse files in Dired.
Now when images and archives are viewed with `v', keybindings overridden
by view.el are useless (except `q'), so functionality of these modes is broken.

It's a pain to be careful of using the right key for different kind of files:
to type `RET' to view images and archives, or to type `v' to view other files.

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