From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to temporarily show an image in an Emacs buffer?
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2023 15:38:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <835ybb5pn0.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bkl3etd1.fsf@mbork.pl> (message from Marcin Borkowski on Wed, 08 Mar 2023 05:53:46 +0100)
> From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
> Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2023 05:53:46 +0100
>
> I need to insert an image in the buffer in a way that doesn't interfere
> with the undo mechanism. In other words, `insert-image' won't help me
> because (as I understand it) it needs to insert a space or some other
> string so that it can put display property on it. How to achieve this?
You can put a display property on the existing text in the buffer
without inserting any new text. See the node "Other Display
Properties" in the ELisp manual, where it describes the
‘(image . IMAGE-PROPS)’ display property spec.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-08 13:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-08 4:53 How to temporarily show an image in an Emacs buffer? Marcin Borkowski
2023-03-08 5:23 ` Marcin Borkowski
2023-03-08 6:19 ` Ruijie Yu via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2023-03-08 16:01 ` Marcin Borkowski
2023-03-08 16:41 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-03-11 8:14 ` Marcin Borkowski
2023-03-12 3:37 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-03-12 7:46 ` Marcin Borkowski
2023-03-08 13:38 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-03-08 16:00 ` Marcin Borkowski
2023-03-13 8:29 ` Jean Louis
2023-03-13 9:27 ` Marcin Borkowski
2023-04-01 15:57 ` Marcin Borkowski
2023-03-10 16:26 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2023-03-11 8:15 ` Marcin Borkowski
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