Display images when running emacs in terminal

Display images when running emacs in terminal

[Leo]

Dear all,

When running emacs in terminal, what kind of image is supported?

Best,
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Leo <sdl.web AT gmail.com>                         (GPG Key: 9283AA3F)

Re: Display images when running emacs in terminal

[David Hansen]

On Sat, 19 May 2007 01:17:51 +0100 Leo wrote:

> When running emacs in terminal, what kind of image is supported?

ASCII art.

David

Re: Display images when running emacs in terminal

[Xavier Maillard]

   Dear all,

   When running emacs in terminal, what kind of image is supported?

It depends on what you 1) called a terminal (TERM value) and 2)
called an image :)

AFAIK, you can use and visualize artist-mode and things like that :)

	Xavier
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Re: Display images when running emacs in terminal

[Leo]

----- Xavier Maillard (2007-05-22) wrote:-----

> It depends on what you 1) called a terminal (TERM value) and 2) called
> an image :)
>
> AFAIK, you can use and visualize artist-mode and things like that :)
>
> 	Xavier

But w3m-img can display image in both linux console and terminal. Can
Emacs do so?

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Leo <sdl.web AT gmail.com>                         (GPG Key: 9283AA3F)

Re: Display images when running emacs in terminal

[Jason Rumney]

On 22 May, 08:58, Leo <sdl....@gmail.com> wrote:

> But w3m-img can display image in both linux console and terminal. Can
> Emacs do so?
>
> --
> Leo <sdl.web AT gmail.com>                         (GPG Key: 9283AA3F)

I don't think there is any benefit in supporting this. People who use
Emacs in an X terminal or the Linux framebuffer console do so by
choice, and would likely be annoyed if Emacs started displaying
images, as that is probably what they are trying to avoid.

Re: Display images when running emacs in terminal

[Leo]

----- Jason Rumney (2007-05-22) wrote:-----

>> But w3m-img can display image in both linux console and terminal. Can
>> Emacs do so?
>
> I don't think there is any benefit in supporting this. People who use
> Emacs in an X terminal or the Linux framebuffer console do so by
> choice, and would likely be annoyed if Emacs started displaying
> images, as that is probably what they are trying to avoid.

There are other reasons to use Emacs in terminal and with a 256 color
terminal, it is almost as good as in X. One downside is the display of
images which I found it inconvenient for example when using emacs-w3m.

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Leo <sdl.web AT gmail.com>                         (GPG Key: 9283AA3F)

Re: Display images when running emacs in terminal

[Xavier Maillard]

   But w3m-img can display image in both linux console and terminal. Can
   Emacs do so?

Yes w3m-img can do this but GNU Emacs, by choice or not, does not
provide such support. This is IMO what the majority of
(X)terminal/console users want (so do I).

	Xavier
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Re: Display images when running emacs in terminal

[Leo]

----- Xavier Maillard (2007-05-22) wrote:-----

>    But w3m-img can display image in both linux console and terminal. Can
>    Emacs do so?
>
> Yes w3m-img can do this but GNU Emacs, by choice or not, does not
> provide such support. This is IMO what the majority of
> (X)terminal/console users want (so do I).
>
> 	Xavier

So the answer is: currently Emacs does not support such feature. The
majority does not need this feature.

For those interested: I just heard that SXEmacs will develop such
feature.

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Leo <sdl.web AT gmail.com>                         (GPG Key: 9283AA3F)

Re: Display images when running emacs in terminal

[Xavier Maillard]

   ----- Xavier Maillard (2007-05-22) wrote:-----

   >    But w3m-img can display image in both linux console and terminal. Can
   >    Emacs do so?
   >
   > Yes w3m-img can do this but GNU Emacs, by choice or not, does not
   > provide such support. This is IMO what the majority of
   > (X)terminal/console users want (so do I).
   >
   > 	Xavier

   So the answer is: currently Emacs does not support such feature. The
   majority does not need this feature.

Note that if you are interested in making GNU Emacs supporting
this, you could just try to send a patch to the development team.
They will likely appreciate it :)

	Xavier
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