Simon BrookeApr 24

Yes, #Emacs. You can render SVG. Very clever. But I actually want to *edit the text* of the file (you know, in a text editor. Like... oh, $DEITY, never mind).

Yes, Emacs, you almost certainly do have some weird key combination to switch back to ACTUALLY BEING A TEXT EDITOR, but I don't know it, and, being Emacs, you're too damned arrogant to make it discoverable.

Typing `<esc>-x svg` and hitting tab produces nothing.

Why do I still waste disk space on this piece of crap?

Show threadengtaoApr 24
@simon_brooke When I open an svg file in emacs, it says on the mode line 'type C-c C-c to view the image as text'.
Show threadOmar AntolínApr 24
@engtao Which seems fairly discoverable. @simon_brooke
Show threadSimon Brooke
@oantolin @engtao See my screenshot.
Apr 24 at 12:06pmWeb
Show threadengtaoApr 25
@simon_brooke I saw your screenshot. Here is what I see
immediately after loading an svg --- perhaps you don't see the same message.
The same C-c C-c key combination (tied to the function (image-toggle-display))
also lets you see the xml in .docx files.
Show threadSimon BrookeApr 25
@engtao I think that in fact when I immediately load an SVG file I do, but I didn't see it in time and it's transient. By the time I took the screenshot it was gone.
Show threadengtaoApr 25
@simon_brooke Yes, it's easy to miss. I've found C-c C-c is useful to try if unsure because it seems to get used for 'do the sensible thing' in a range of different emacs extensions. For LaTeX it compiles/views the document and in org-mode it updates table calculations, for example.