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

[Jude DaShiell]

Sorry about that, memory was not all there at the time I joined this
thread.  Try searching for an app called aview.


On Mon, 2 Aug 2021, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

> * 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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