Hi Brian, > Emacs and OrgMode do many great things; but, the focus has always been, at > it's core, the most powerful editor and stateless organizing software--it's > not a browser of dynamically generated Internet pics--Emacs W3 was created > to do that, and it hasn't been updated in years--suggest you look at Emacs > W3 browser code and/or w3m browser or even UZBL browser--all of which were > made into good extensions for doing such things--UZBL by the way has been > made to operate fully encapsulated in an emacs buffer
I'm not looking for a browser of dynamically generated Internet pics -- I would just like to display a static image that lives on an SSH server somewhere. In particular, my use-case is for making plots with a remote R session via org-babel. I want those plots to display correctly in the org-file I'm working in (which may also be on the remote server). > * Idea 3 > Use the patch you reference and create your own .el program that gets > loaded and run when you want it--a cursory examination of the patch > reveals that it depends on ImageMagick which is great software that > everyone should use; but, it's a dependency that is NOT emacs software and > so it makes sense that it was never put into the main OrgMode software tree The patch does not add any dependency on ImageMagick -- those references to imagemagick existed before the patch, and are still in org.el today. > * Idea 1 > Create a "cron job" or "at job" that does updates up to the minute and make > those images current...and local--and the cron job can auto-delete the temp > file later or back it up > > * Idea 2 > Make an elisp .el program that gets loaded and run whenever you open the > .org file with the remote image...and that code updates the images locally These are interesting ideas, but I'm only interested in looking at static images, so they seem a bit like overkill for my desired use case.