Image Displaying in Console

Image Displaying in Console

[Max Xie]

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Hi,

I wonder why emacs working under console refuses to display image. In fact,
I can view pictures in my console, using fbv, even under emacs's shell...
But emacs refuses to display any image itself, saying "Can't display images
in this environment". I enjoy browsing the Internet with emacs-w3m in
console, but, as a lack, it shows no images...

So, could anyone tell me how to deal this problem? Can I force the emacs to
try displaying images under text mode?

Please excuse my bad English. I'm not a native English speaker.

Thank you.

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Re: Image Displaying in Console

[zwz]

Max Xie <max.t.xie@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I wonder why emacs working under console refuses to display image. In
> fact,
> I can view pictures in my console, using fbv, even under emacs's
> shell...
> But emacs refuses to display any image itself, saying "Can't display
> images
> in this environment". I enjoy browsing the Internet with emacs-w3m in
> console, but, as a lack, it shows no images...
>
> So, could anyone tell me how to deal this problem? Can I force the emacs
> to
> try displaying images under text mode?

Had the same problem long ago. When hit 't' or 'T' in Emacs-w3m, it
checks whether it is in X, and if not, the message "Can't disp..."
shows.

However, I think the problem lies in that Emacs can not deal with
framebuffer. It is just my guess, and do not know if it is the case or
not. I googled but found no specific info.
>
> Please excuse my bad English. I'm not a native English speaker.
>
> Thank you.
>
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Re: Image Displaying in Console

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Max Xie <max.t.xie@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 12:10:31 +0800
> 
> I wonder why emacs working under console refuses to display image.

Simply because no one wrote the code to do it on a text terminal.
Emacs maintains a very strict control of everything it displays, so it
must know a lot about how images are displayed on each supported kind
of terminal, for it to work.  And no one wrote the support code for
this.  Maybe you can change that.

Re: Image Displaying in Console

[Max Xie]

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> Simply because no one wrote the code to do it on a text terminal.
> Emacs maintains a very strict control of everything it displays, so it
> must know a lot about how images are displayed on each supported kind
> of terminal, for it to work.  And no one wrote the support code for
> this.  Maybe you can change that.

In fact, I want to change the fact, but, I'm now just a busy high school
student in China... Well, if there is no convenient solution for this issue,
I can just lie the problem there.

Thank you for all your attention.

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