I read about auto-image-file-mode , which I think displays image files as images within emacs. I'd like to use it. This doc says it has been replaced by image-mode.
I can't get either to work.
Any help?
A:
Using Emacs 23.1 (on Fedora 12) when I visit a *.png file, it shows up as an image in the Emacs buffer. Similarly for *.gif and *.pdf files. The mode was advertised as Image[png], fwiw.
pajato0
2010-03-02 19:46:47
Interesting, but that doesn't help me at all.
Cheeso
2010-03-03 03:34:56
+1
A:
It can depend on what version and where you got your windows emacs binary. If you have the windows emacs23 binary from the gnu ftp site then I don't think it is compiled with image support (at least this was the case several months ago). I use the patched windows emacs23 binary from EmacsW32 which does have image support. I also have (auto-image-file-mode) in my .emacs file.
luapyad
2010-03-02 19:55:17
+3
A:
I got it to work, by downloading the packages for PNG and JPG from GnuWin32, and putting the required DLLs into the \emacs\bin directory:
From LibPng:
libpng-config
libpng12-config
libpng12.dll
libpng3.dll
zlib1.dll
From jpeg:
jpeg62.dll
Now it works. Here's a screen-shot of editing a SO question, being displayed in emacs.
You could also drop those DLLs on the OS's PATH, before running runemacs.exe. That works, too.
Cheeso
2010-03-02 20:16:23
Works great, though zlib1.dll isn't provided in the png zip file (binaries at least).
Trey Jackson
2010-03-02 20:55:37
Are there any pass-through commands to the image-displays, that would allow us to size the image to fit, etc? I can scroll the image, but hi-res file are tough to view....
Michael Paulukonis
2010-03-05 16:36:11
I don't know; it might be worthy of a new question. On the other hand, as not very programming related, it would be in danger of getting closed pretty quickly! (like this one)
Cheeso
2010-03-06 01:31:03