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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.



  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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