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I would like w3m in emacs (in a terminal) to show me pictures.

Showing pictures in emacs gui works: images in emacs gui without terminal

Showing pictures in the terminal without emacs works: images in w3m without emacs

But in emacs w3m running in a terminal, no images are shown: no images in w3m in emacs in terminal

Pressing T doesn't help, instead I get the message "Can't display images in this environment".

But since emacs and termite are clearly able to show images from w3m, why not at the same time?

Additional information: I am using x86_64 Arch Linux 4.7 with GNU Emacs 24.5.1 and w3m 0.5.3 and the w3m package 20160727.837 in emacs

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  • What's your question?
    – Drew
    Commented Aug 30, 2016 at 21:12
  • "But since emacs and termite are clearly able to show images from w3m, why not at the same time?" - Or in other words: What can I do to make it work?
    – Kaligule
    Commented Aug 30, 2016 at 21:38
  • This is a terrible hack that relies on a xterm-compatible terminal emulator and a working framebuffer. I wouldn't expect it to ever work under Emacs and its w3m package.
    – wasamasa
    Commented Aug 31, 2016 at 6:18
  • Some would say it is beautifull. But honestly, I have no idea how it works.
    – Kaligule
    Commented Aug 31, 2016 at 12:43

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From elisp documentation:

Emacs is usually able to display images when it is run on a graphical terminal. Images cannot be displayed in a text terminal, on certain graphical terminals that lack the support for this, or if Emacs is compiled without image support.

So the answer is no.

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