Re: Building with image support

[Eric Lilja <mindcooler@gmail.com>]

David Kastrup wrote:
> Eric Lilja <mindcooler@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> My question is this: What am I missing without png support, without
>> tiff support etc? I only work with text with emacs, 90 percent of
>> the time programming. My original wish has been fullfilled, which
>> was nice looking toolbars on windows, but I wanted to know if it
>> might be a good idea to build emacs with support for the other image
>> formats as well. But if it doesn't matter to what I do with emacs, I
>> don't want to complicate my "build environment" unnecessarily.
> 
> You can use Emacs to browse/view images and directories containing
> them, and there is something like
> <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/preview-latex.html> if you
> are using LaTeX for writing texts.
> 

Thanks for the quick reply, David. If I get more serious in my attempt 
to learn latex, I will most definetly look into latex preview mode and 
try to build emacs with the image format support it needs for that. But 
as far as the "UI" is concerned, xpm is sufficient, right?

- Eric