Re: Inline MIME display -- when and when not?

[Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

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> The inline media tests have changed.  Gnus won't display images that
> are bigger than the article buffer inline.  Perhaps there should be an 
> option to switch this feature off?  Or perhaps a command to display
> things inline, no matter if we can or not?  Hm.  But if we can't, how
> can we?  :-)

OK.  I figured out what's going on for me.  The width of my images
were all less than the width of the article buffer, but the heights of
the images were longer than the buffer, thereby causing the
`mm-image-fit-p' routine in `mm-decode.el' to consider the image to be
too big for the buffer.

I'm wondering, however, why the height of the image is being
considered at all, given that the article buffer is always easily
scrollable in the vertical direction.  Wouldn't it be acceptable to
allow a longer-than-buffer image to still be drawn inline, as long as
it's narrow enough?

My opinion is that there should at least be an option to control this
behavior with regard to the vertical dimension of the image.

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 Lloyd Zusman
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