[Nix-dev] Emacs 24

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Peter Simons <simons at cryp.to> skribis:

> Hi Ludo,
>
>  > [ImageMagick] is used for image-mode, image-dired, and Doc-view,
>  > among others, so it needs to stay IMO.
>
> are you sure that this information is accurate? I just built an Emacs24
> without the ImageMagick dependency, and still all these features seem to
> work fine.

Actually, I noticed (and this is veeery important, no matter what Eelco
thinks of me ;-)) that DocView in Emacs24+ImageMagick is much faster and
snappier than it used to be without that dependency.  Grepping for
ImageMagick in doc-view.el confirms that it’s being leveraged.

> How about this: we remove those additional dependencies that were added
> relative to Emacs23, and then we wait for someone to speak up, saying
> that there is an actual use case that doesn't work anymore? 

I’m speaking up already!  :-)

Ludo’.