From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Displaying images "outside" the layout Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 22:18:15 -0700 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Message-ID: <87a9ejqq20.fsf@building.gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390713555 28413 80.91.229.3 (26 Jan 2014 05:19:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 05:19:15 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 26 06:19:23 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W7I7r-0000h7-JK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 06:19:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53581 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W7I7r-0005Dq-5b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 00:19:19 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58567) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W7I7j-0005Dl-In for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 00:19:17 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W7I7d-0001Ex-D1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 00:19:11 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:39239) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W7I7d-0001Et-6O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 00:19:05 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W7I7b-0000ae-M6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 06:19:03 +0100 Original-Received: from 206.174.175.106 ([206.174.175.106]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 06:19:03 +0100 Original-Received: from larsi by 206.174.175.106 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 06:19:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.174.175.106 Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:e3X18Cbd0TZFZTlqRxBZAtU+iGc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:169105 Archived-At: I've been thinking a bit about adding the possibility of adding image previews to dired in a more similar way to other file browsers. There is image-dired and friends, but they require batch processing and are kinda awkward. What I'd like to see is that when you place point on an image, or you issue a special new command, Emacs would make a preview image on the fly (like all other file browsers), and it would display this image in a convenient way. Inserting the preview into the buffer would be the easiest, of course, but where? On the current line would be obvious, but would make stuff move around, since image thumbnails would be taller than the lines are. So here's my question: Is there a way to display images in tooltips? I tried the obvious, which is using a string with a display parameter that points to an image in `help-echo', but that didn't work. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/