Re: [Ranger-users] Preview images on a Mac

[Roman Z.]

On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 03:24:52AM -0500, Andy Maloney wrote:
>    - modified ranger/ext/img_display.py line 16 to W3MIMGDISPLAY_PATH =
>    '/opt/local/libex/w3m/w3mimgdisplay' to point to where my w3mingdisplay is.

Since ranger 1.6.1 you can just set the environment variable
W3MIMGDISPLAY_PATH in your shell's config file and you don't have to
change the source code.

> I tried opening an image with w3m in the mac terminal—settings
> xterm-256color—and it opened a jpg in a new window with ImageMagick in X11.
> It balked when I tried to open a .tif file though. I have tiff 4.0.3
> installed.

w3m can also display images *inside* the terminal, without a separate
imagemagick window.  If it can't, then either your terminal doesn't
support it or you didn't install all necessary parts.  Looks like it's
the former though, so I would try installing xterm and try with that.

> I'd like to use ranger to preview image files (specifically .tif files) if
> at all possible and any recommendations on how to do this would be greatly
> appreciated.

previewing TIF files in ranger works for me.  I got w3m 0.5.3,
ranger 1.6.1, urxvt 9.18 (that's the terminal, fyi)

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