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BeetleB 3 days ago

Unsure what you mean. When I press Enter on an image, it does load it (in Emacs).

I believe opening within Emacs should be the default - as many Emacs users aim to do everything within Emacs.

See this submission from a day ago:

https://en.andros.dev/blog/06bfd107/emacs-is-a-lispboard/

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stackghost 3 days ago | parent [-]

>I believe opening within Emacs should be the default - as many Emacs users aim to do everything within Emacs.

I believe it's actually only a very vocal, very misguided minority that tries to do everything in emacs. Emacs is objectively inferior to existing alternatives for:

- IMAP

- viewing and especially annotating PDFs

- Browsing the web

- working with LLM agents

- multiplayer text editing (crdt.el is trash)

- working with rich text documents like .docx

- working with spreadsheets

- notebook rendering (org vs md and jupyter are definitely a "worse is better" situation)

etc.

It is not sane to assume the user wants to do everything in emacs. Emacs is bad at lots of things and that's okay.

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BeetleB 3 days ago | parent [-]

We can quibble about the proportion of users, as well as how well it does all these things till the heat death of the universe.

The point is that if Emacs ships with an image viewer, it makes sense for that to be the default. If KDE comes with an image viewer, you would expect it to be the default - even if it sucks. Ditto anything on a Mac/iPhone.

> Emacs is bad at lots of things and that's okay.

It's also OK to have it as the default. Emacs usage is not shrinking, and they're OK sticking to their philosophy as long as it doesn't impede future development (it doesn't, as the last 20 years have shown).

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stackghost 3 days ago | parent [-]

>The point is that if Emacs ships with an image viewer, it makes sense for that to be the default.

If, and only if, the user has emacs set in xdg as the preferred image viewer, then I agree.

	▲	BeetleB 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		This is a pointless discussion, with a significant number of users wanting each side. It's also a silly discussion given that Emacs is perhaps the most configurable software on the planet. Personally, on multiple occasions, I've been frustrated when upgrading some (non-Emacs) SW and have it behave differently because they suddenly decided to make using xdg the default and then having to waste time finding a way to revert that behavior. This isn't a problem unique to Emacs. I'm sure if Emacs seriously started losing lots of users, they'll change the defaults to attract some. Until then, the developers (and most chronic users) simply don't care.