From: Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org>
To: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Display images when running emacs in terminal
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 00:36:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200705232236.l4NMarZP004809@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2lkffv4bu.fsf@sl392.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk> (message from Leo on Wed, 23 May 2007 18:26:45 +0100)
----- Xavier Maillard (2007-05-22) wrote:-----
> But w3m-img can display image in both linux console and terminal. Can
> Emacs do so?
>
> Yes w3m-img can do this but GNU Emacs, by choice or not, does not
> provide such support. This is IMO what the majority of
> (X)terminal/console users want (so do I).
>
> Xavier
So the answer is: currently Emacs does not support such feature. The
majority does not need this feature.
Note that if you are interested in making GNU Emacs supporting
this, you could just try to send a patch to the development team.
They will likely appreciate it :)
Xavier
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-23 22:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-19 0:17 Display images when running emacs in terminal Leo
2007-05-19 2:36 ` David Hansen
2007-05-22 4:38 ` Xavier Maillard
2007-05-22 7:58 ` Leo
2007-05-22 21:45 ` Xavier Maillard
2007-05-23 17:26 ` Leo
2007-05-23 22:36 ` Xavier Maillard [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.963.1179820806.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-05-22 14:28 ` Jason Rumney
2007-05-22 19:58 ` Leo
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