{"id":8298,"date":"2019-09-09T12:47:48","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T16:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=8298"},"modified":"2019-09-09T12:47:48","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T16:47:48","slug":"opening-images-in-emacs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=8298","title":{"rendered":"Opening Images in Emacs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These tweets:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Expected outcome <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Emacs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Emacs<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fHh97DVcda\">pic.twitter.com\/fHh97DVcda<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Antti Tyrv\u00e4inen (@antti_engineer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/antti_engineer\/status\/1170673675370205184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 8, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>reminded me that not everyone is aware that you can open image files in Emacs so I thought I\u2019d share the knowledge. If you like, it\u2019s easy to switch back and forth to a hex representation.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this works only with GUI Emacs although <a href=\"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=5835\">you should almost certainly be using GUI Emacs instead of the terminal version<\/a> anyway (but see <a href=\"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=5835#comment-3080518880\">Phil\u2019s comment<\/a> for a situation where terminal Emacs makes sense).<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s just another reminder of how powerful Emacs is for most text-based tasks and even some tasks that aren\u2019t text-based.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These tweets: Expected outcome #Emacs. pic.twitter.com\/fHh97DVcda \u2014 Antti Tyrv\u00e4inen (@antti_engineer) September 8, 2019 reminded me that not everyone is aware that you can open image files in Emacs so I thought I\u2019d share the knowledge. If you like, it\u2019s easy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=8298\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-8298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-emacs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8299,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8298\/revisions\/8299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}