Viewing multiple images (was Re: Console HTML view with picture)

[Patrick Shanahan]

* Akkana Peck <akkana at shallowsky.com> [08-02-21 12:11]:
> Tavis Ormandy writes:
> > Not exactly what was asked, but I use this mailcap to view image
> > attachments:
> > 
> > image/png; img2sixel -- %s | less -r; nametemplate=%s.png; needsterminal
> 
> Related question: is there a way to view several attachments at once?
> 
> For example, someone sends five photos of a bird they saw, or
> twelve funny pictures. In the attachment view, I can tag
> attachments, but it doesn't seem like more than one attachment
> is ever passed to a viewer.
> 
> If they're all multipart/related, then I have a script that will
> show the HTML page in a browser window. But recently a Mac user sent
> me an email with a bunch of image/heif attachments which the browser
> didn't handle. They worked fine in an image viewer, but it's
> tedious to show lots of image attachments one after another, because
> you have to wait for each image window to come up, then move focus
> back to the mutt window to arrow down and open the next image. It
> would be great to have a way to tag all the image attachmentss and
> pass them all together as arguments to an image viewer.

why not just set w3m to automagically display them????

  set "auto_image=TRUE" 
  w3m -o auto_image=TRUE

  
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