From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
To: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Can Emacs started with `-nw' option view pdf with pdf-tools?
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2021 09:00:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AM9PR09MB4977E387685F171E98B073DE96109@AM9PR09MB4977.eurprd09.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGP6POJ4XYb4ZhMe5Kr8n_y500AGKH7tjdCqqn63NtauZ92+jg@mail.gmail.com> (Hongyi Zhao's message of "Sat, 17 Jul 2021 12:50:40 +0800")
Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> writes:
> I'm using auctex and pdf-tools with Emacs, and find that if I start
> Emacs with `emacs -nw`, the pdf-tools won't let me preview pdf.
>
> Any hints?
>
> Regards
Yes you need a GUI window to display images (which is what pdf-tools
does).
Albeit a virtual terminal in X (or console in Win32) are implemented in
a platform window, they don't expose windowing capabilities but pretend
they are old-fashioned consoles without gui capabilities.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-17 7:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-17 4:50 Can Emacs started with `-nw' option view pdf with pdf-tools? Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-17 7:00 ` Arthur Miller [this message]
2021-07-17 10:37 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-17 11:47 ` Thibaut Verron
2021-07-20 22:35 ` Felix Dietrich
2021-07-20 22:59 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-21 1:38 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-21 2:24 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-21 1:56 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-21 6:41 ` Yuri Khan
2021-07-21 6:51 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-21 7:15 ` Yuri Khan
2021-07-21 8:51 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-21 7:09 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-21 18:53 ` Leo Butler
2021-07-17 11:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-17 12:51 ` Hongyi Zhao
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