Re: Can Emacs started with `-nw' option view pdf with pdf-tools?

[Hongyi Zhao]

On Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 3:00 PM Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com> wrote:
>
> Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I'm using auctex and pdf-tools with Emacs,  and find that if I start
> > Emacs with `emacs -nw`, the pdf-tools won't let me preview pdf.
> >
> > Any hints?
> >
> > Regards
>
> Yes you need a GUI window to display images (which is what pdf-tools
> does).

Basically, if I start emacs without `-nw' option, the `C-c C-v' will
do the job described here automatically. But how to let `C-c C-v' open
a GUI window for this case?

> Albeit a virtual terminal in X (or console in Win32) are implemented in
> a platform window, they don't expose windowing capabilities but pretend
> they are old-fashioned consoles without gui capabilities.

Best regards,
-- 
Assoc. Prof. Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
Theory and Simulation of Materials
Hebei Vocational University of Technology and Engineering
No. 473, Quannan West Street, Xindu District, Xingtai, Hebei province