display images inline in xterm (while using mutt)

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Hi,

Thanks again!


On Friday, December 4, 2020, 11:13:03 AM CST, Patrick Shanahan <paka at opensuse.org> wrote:  * mutt users list <mutt-users at mutt.org> [12-04-20 11:44]:> 
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks very much!
> 
> > On Friday, December 4, 2020, 10:24:44 AM CST, Patrick Shanahan <paka at opensuse.org> wrote:  * mutt users list <mutt-users at mutt.org> [12-04-20 11:07]:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Thanks! 
> > 
> >  > On Friday, December 4, 2020, 9:56:23 AM CST, Dave Woodfall <dave at tty1.uk> wrote: 
> > 
> > >>  On 04/12/20 05:30, Mutt Users <mutt-users at mutt.org> put forth the proposition:
> > >> Hi,
> > >> If I use w3m -o ext_image_viewer=0 test.png, I can get the file test.png inside xterm. I wanted to do the same on my mutt window (inside xterm). How do I do this?
> > >> I tried putting:
> > >> image/*;w3m -o ext_imageviewer=0 %s; copious output
> > >> However this does not work and gives me the options of w3m in the mutt window. How can I use this?
> 
> snipped
> 
> > I didn't have it installed, but test installed and get same result. removed it and following works w/o it, but w3m must be configured to display graphical.  I will have to look to see where, don't remember, too old, been too long.
> 
> > for me:  w3m display.jpg will display image display.jpg
> 
> > ok found it
> >     Display embedded graphics
> >     $ w3m -o auto_image=TRUE http://w3m.sourceforge.net
> 
> >      ~/.w3m/config
> >      user defined configuration file; overrides /etc/w3m/config
>                                           
> 
> My apologies, I do not understand. Where do I put this? In my mailcap? FWIW, I tried:
> 
> $ w3m -o auto_image=TRUE test.png
> 
> and that opens gpicview for me. 
> 
> I copied over the system config /etc/w3m/config to /.w3m/config
> 
> and added 
> ext_image_viewer=0
> 
> and then I get the inline images. However, how to do this inside mutt does not seem to work.
> 
> I have the following in my .mailcap:
> 
> auto_view image/*
> image/*;w3m %s; copiousoutput
> 
> But what i get is a bunch of text for the image file that I am trying to display.
> 
> Thanks in advance again!



> I have:

> text/html; w3m -dump -v -F -T text/html %s; nametemplate=%s.html; needsterminal


And what do you do for inline display of images? Btw, I have to say that w3m works pretty well on most of the stuff sent  by html. I wonder if I could make it the default display for e-mails that come in html.

TIA!