From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Lilja Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Building with image support Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:16:57 +0200 Message-ID: References: <86abq74fdy.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1193311055 20840 80.91.229.12 (25 Oct 2007 11:17:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:17:35 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 25 13:17:36 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Il0iS-0007s3-Sf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:17:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Il0iK-0006PC-8g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:17:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Il0iF-0006OB-C0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:17:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Il0iD-0006N9-Ry for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:17:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Il0iD-0006N6-Lk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:17:17 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Il0iD-0002T1-5k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:17:17 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Il0hx-0002lK-FL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:17:01 +0000 Original-Received: from cust.fiber-lan.vnet.lk.85.194.49.108.stunet.se ([85.194.49.108]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:17:01 +0000 Original-Received: from mindcooler by cust.fiber-lan.vnet.lk.85.194.49.108.stunet.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:17:01 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cust.fiber-lan.vnet.lk.85.194.49.108.stunet.se User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: <86abq74fdy.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:81706 Archived-At: David Kastrup wrote: > Eric Lilja 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 > if you > are using LaTeX for writing texts. > Thanks for the quick reply, David. If I get more serious in my attempt to learn latex, I will most definetly look into latex preview mode and try to build emacs with the image format support it needs for that. But as far as the "UI" is concerned, xpm is sufficient, right? - Eric