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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Eric Lilja <mindcooler@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Building with image support
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:12:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86abq74fdy.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ffps5n$eej$1@ger.gmane.org> (Eric Lilja's message of "Thu\, 25 Oct 2007 12\:46\:21 +0200")

Eric Lilja <mindcooler@gmail.com> writes:

> My question is this: What am I missing without png support, without
> tiff support etc? I only work with text with emacs, 90 percent of
> the time programming. My original wish has been fullfilled, which
> was nice looking toolbars on windows, but I wanted to know if it
> might be a good idea to build emacs with support for the other image
> formats as well. But if it doesn't matter to what I do with emacs, I
> don't want to complicate my "build environment" unnecessarily.

You can use Emacs to browse/view images and directories containing
them, and there is something like
<URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/preview-latex.html> if you
are using LaTeX for writing texts.

-- 
David Kastrup

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-25 11:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-25 10:46 Building with image support Eric Lilja
2007-10-25 11:12 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-10-25 11:16   ` Eric Lilja
2007-10-26  8:21     ` David Kastrup
2007-10-26 10:33       ` Eric Lilja
2007-10-26 10:58         ` Jason Rumney
2007-10-28 15:45           ` Eric Lilja
2007-10-26  9:46 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-26 10:34   ` Eric Lilja

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