Function: image-mode-as-text

image-mode-as-text is an interactive and byte-compiled function defined in image-mode.el.gz.

Signature

(image-mode-as-text)

Documentation

Set a non-image mode as major mode in combination with image minor mode.

A non-image major mode found from auto-mode-alist or Fundamental mode displays an image file as text. image-minor-mode(var)/image-minor-mode(fun) provides the key C-c C-c (image-toggle-display) to switch back to image-mode to display an image file as the actual image.

You can use image-mode-as-text in auto-mode-alist when you want to display an image file as text initially.

See commands image-mode and image-minor-mode(var)/image-minor-mode(fun) for more information on these modes.

Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 23.2.

Key Bindings

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/image-mode.el.gz
(defun image-mode-as-text ()
  "Set a non-image mode as major mode in combination with image minor mode.
A non-image major mode found from `auto-mode-alist' or Fundamental mode
displays an image file as text.  `image-minor-mode' provides the key
\\<image-mode-map>\\[image-toggle-display] to switch back to `image-mode'
to display an image file as the actual image.

You can use `image-mode-as-text' in `auto-mode-alist' when you want
to display an image file as text initially.

See commands `image-mode' and `image-minor-mode' for more information
on these modes."
  (interactive)
  (image-mode-to-text)
  (image-minor-mode 1)
  (message (substitute-command-keys
            "Type \\[image-toggle-display] to view the image as %s")
           (if (image-get-display-property)
               "text" "an image")))