Thanks for the patch, and sorry about the slow response.
Ferdinand Pieper writes: > Currently remote images are downloaded upon each display. As most of > the time the images do not change in between redisplays, we can > instead buffer the images locally and only update the local copy when > the remote image is updated. Hmm, I'm guessing this was left as a simple download given that there is also a `cache' option that keeps the image around in a separate buffer. Does that value help for your use case? Jack, as the author of the org-display-remote-inline-images commit, what do you think about this patch?