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I want to open gif image link (in Org-mode) with emacs lisp function image-animate. Here is my try. https://gist.github.com/e2e05b28e0a6bf3bd9f27f345696892d But I got some problems, how to open a temp buffer window to display the image? and Seems image-animate require IMAGE as absolute path. I don't know how to use org-file-apps parameters FILE and LINK.

Usually the org-mode GIF file link looks like this: [[file:data/eb/cf96ad-9e34-4ef6-b0c2-5c31bb869aa6/59715_170807115059_1.gif]]

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I think you were already very close.

Starting from your code I ended up with the entry

(lambda (file link)
  (let ((my-image (create-image file))
        (tmpbuf (get-buffer-create "*gif")))
    (switch-to-buffer tmpbuf)
    (erase-buffer)
    (insert-image my-image)
    (image-animate my-image)))

for ".gif" in variable org-file-apps.

I think the main issue with your code was that you did not give the buffer enough time to live.

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  • Do you know how to loop playing the gif?
    – stardiviner
    Oct 15 '17 at 5:23
  • Set the third parameter to image-animate to t for endless repetition. For the example above this is (image-animate my-image nil t). See the documentation of image-animate for further information.
    – Marco Wahl
    Oct 15 '17 at 12:35

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