Re: Building with image support

[David Kastrup]

Eric Lilja <address@hidden> writes:

> My question is this: What am I missing without png support, without
> tiff support etc? I only work with text with emacs, 90 percent of
> the time programming. My original wish has been fullfilled, which
> was nice looking toolbars on windows, but I wanted to know if it
> might be a good idea to build emacs with support for the other image
> formats as well. But if it doesn't matter to what I do with emacs, I
> don't want to complicate my "build environment" unnecessarily.

You can use Emacs to browse/view images and directories containing
them, and there is something like
<URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/preview-latex.html> if you
are using LaTeX for writing texts.

-- 
David Kastrup