Hi,

Thanks! 

 > On Friday, December 4, 2020, 9:56:23 AM CST, Dave Woodfall <d...@tty1.uk> 
 > wrote: 

>>  On 04/12/20 05:30, Mutt Users <mutt-users@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?

>I don't have a solution offhand, but I'd like to let you know thatw3m's image 
>viewer can be invoked directly without going via w3m
first.

> It is installed in your distro's libexec directory, which in mine (slackware) 
> is:

>/usr/libexec/w3m/w3mimgdisplay

>Doing a `locate w3mimgdisplay' should find it.

Interesting and thanks! Mine is also at the same location:

$ locate w3mimgdisplay
/usr/libexec/w3m/w3mimgdisplay

However 

$ /usr/libexec/w3m/w3mimgdisplay test.png

appears to do nothing. The prompt just comes back. 

TIAA!


--
Dave

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