Re: filemananger for emacs with meta information about a file without opening it

[Jean Louis]

* Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> [2022-11-03 11:19]:
> On Thu, 3 Nov 2022 at 14:58, <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> 
> > > In Dired, one uses `y' to get basic information about the file without
> > > opening it. Often I use it for pictures to find out the resolution.
> >
> > How do you find out a picture's resolution without opening the file?
> 
> Nohow. The opening is just not perceived by the user. The pedantic
> description would probably be “without visiting in a buffer and
> without starting an associated interactive application”.

Of course something must read information in the file.

Other way to go is indexing pictures once and later searching within
the index.

-- 
Jean

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