* Great, see a lot of interest and use of image-mode.el, suggest you check
out this thread

https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/3432/display-images-in-eshell-with-iimage-mode

** Suggest you check out and use iimage-mode.el --it may help ...that's
iimage-mode.el rather than, or in addition to, your use of image-mode.el



On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 9:20 PM Jack Kamm <jackkamm@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've attached a patch which implements displaying remote images.
>
> > This is a longstanding problem, and there was an attempt to patch it in
> > 2014, but the patch was never accepted:
> > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2014-11/msg00583.html
>
> Compared to the previous attempt from 2014, I think my patch is simpler
> -- it doesn't require creating any temp files.
>
> > The fault might be with image.el rather than with org-mode itself --
> > for example, when I execute the following elisp, I get the same blank
> > box:
>
> After doing some reading, I learned that image.el doesn't really create
> the image. Instead, create-image simply creates a blank string with a
> text property pointing to the image file location, and the rendering of
> the image gets handled later by the C code (for example, png_load_body()
> in image.c), which doesn't know how to read remote image files.
>
> Since I wasn't comfortable trying to get the C code to read the remote
> file, I instead took the approach used by image-mode.el, which reads the
> remote image file and passes its contents directly to create-image,
> instead of just passing the filename.
>
>