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From: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>
To: Steven L Baur <steve@xemacs.org>
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Subject: [PATCH] Re: gif problem
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Steven L Baur writes:
 > There are multiple problems here.
 > 
 > 1.  There's the problem Michael describes which is reproducible.
 > 
 > 2.  Michael's messagee doesn't decode properly (as do any inline
 >     attachments encoded with x-uue).  The buffer mysteriously gets
 >     turned read-only due to some magical hook invoked from
 >     insert-file-contents.
 >
 > 3.  Fixing problem #2 leads to getting spurious `Invalid glyph!'
 >     messages when nothing appears to be wrong.

It's probably (still) image-mode.  (2) definitely sounds like a
problem reported before, the solution being to set format-alist
to nil.

XEmacs is a poor image viewer and an even worse image editor.  I
don't think this code is worth fixing.  Please just get rid of
it.

