From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: How to temporarily show an image in an Emacs buffer?
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2023 05:53:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bkl3etd1.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
Hi all,
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?
To be more precise, imagine I have this buffer:
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
(two lines of text). I want it to look like this:
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
+----------------------+
| |
+----------------------+
yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
in other words, I want a rectangular image (inserted by `insert-image'
or actually `svg-insert-image') to appear between them, but in a way
that doesn't actually change the buffer contents.
Alternatively, it _may_ change the buffer contents but in a way that is
not recorded in `buffer-undo-list'. Is that possible?
TIA,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
next reply other threads:[~2023-03-08 4:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-08 4:53 Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2023-03-08 5:23 ` How to temporarily show an image in an Emacs buffer? 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
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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