From: Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] org-display-inline-images: Add support for remote images
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 16:23:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873897718o.fsf@gmx.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAKHbGXW1ChE7q8iyKrR6PAQsDDu52t=udMe4Jsyn0vB00=4+yw@mail.gmail.com
Kit-Yan Choi <kit@kychoi.org> writes:
>> Thanks for your patch. However, I wonder if we really want this. Remote
>> images could be slow to fetch, and it would make buffer unusable.
>
> I personally needed this functionality. I have tried to reduce the amount
> of time spent on fetching the images by checking whether the images have
> been fetched before and whether the remote files are newer. Yes these
> communications take time as it should be expected if one opens an org file
> remotely (therefore connection should have been made) or when one specifies
> a remote image as path and wants to display it inline.
> Perhaps I could add an option flag or ask a question before fetching for
> user to decide whether to display remote images or not? In case the
> behaviour of displaying remote images inline is not desired? One scenario
> I can think of is that `org-startup-with-inline-images' is set to true and
> the file is sometimes visited remotely.
> Any opinion or comment on this, please?
I recently worked with remote pictures for html-slides. The slides were
stored on my github powered website, and the pictures were hosted on my
owncloud. So I definitely see the merits of Kit-Yan's proposal.
Also, remote files will work in HTML, but not in latex or odt (I think),
so local caching could maybe also be applied, optionally, when exporting
documents.
org-startup-with-inline-images should have an equivalent
file-variable that takes priority, and probably
org-startup-with-inline-images should default to nil.
The above is of course "IMO".
—Rasmus
--
Got mashed potatoes. Ain't got no T-Bone. No T-Bone
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-25 15:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-22 4:43 [Patch] org-display-inline-images: Add support for remote images Kit-Yan Choi
2014-11-25 8:32 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-11-25 15:15 ` Kit-Yan Choi
2014-11-25 15:23 ` Rasmus [this message]
2014-11-25 15:29 ` Kit-Yan Choi
2014-11-25 15:39 ` Michael Albinus
2014-11-25 15:45 ` Kit-Yan Choi
2014-11-25 17:04 ` Michael Albinus
2014-11-26 17:13 ` Kit-Yan Choi
2014-11-29 10:50 ` Michael Albinus
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