Re: emacs graphical frame to behave like -nw

[bp25@riseup.net]

Dear Hth,

Thanks for your message. For now I'll stick with the simplest option of
docview. By "be like emacs -nw" I mean the following. The terminal
application on Fedora can display images [1]. I think because it's not
really the terminal, but rather a graphical frame which emulates the
terminal (hence, has many pixels which can be used to display images)?
Can we do the same with emacs? I don't need the graphical environment
except for pdfs, and I'm really at ease with using emacs -nw.

[1]
https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/26698/display-images-in-emacs-w3m-in-terminal

On Sat, Jan 04 2025, mbork@mbork.pl wrote:

> On 2025-01-02, at 16:40, BP25 <bp25@riseup.net> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've been very happily using emacs -nw but now I need to display PDFs
>> (because I'm compiling .tex), hence will need to run emacs on some
>> graphical frame as opposed to the terminal, because I want to use
>> docview. How can I make the graphical frame be like emacs -nw, except
>
> Not the answer to your question, but consider using pdf-tools, which
> is a much better pdf viewer than docview.  (Also, it can integrate
> with AUCTeX.)
>
> Also, what do you mean exactly by "be like emacs -nw"?  Also, what is
> the reason you want that?  I hardly ever use Emacs in a terminal, but
> AFAIK, emacs in a graphical environment is basically the same as in
> the terminal, only better (for example, some keychords do not work in
> terminals AFAIK).  Also, Emacs in graphical environment has some nice
> and/or useful capabilities like displaying images (which is extremely
> useful for me).
>
> Hth,