Re: Inline MIME display -- when and when not?

[Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>]

Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:

> In the case where I'm displaying the images inline (by the way, I do
> this by temporarily hacking `mm-image-fit-p' to always allow
> taller-than-buffer images), the first few taller-than-buffer images
> display fine, but then, I either get an "out of memory" error in
> XEmacs, or XEmacs crashes altogether.

Related to crashes: some of the image code has been revamped for 21.x;
you may wish to compile a 21.0 beta and see if the crashes disappear.

> In the default case where the taller-than-buffer images are being
> displayed via `xv', I can also view a few images just fine, but
> then, XEmacs seems to hang forever waiting for the next `xv' process
> to start.  I have to Control-G out of this.  Then, no more `xv'
> processes can be started.

The file descriptor leakage you describe sounds familiar.  I think
this has also been fixed in 21.0.

> But prior to these errors occurring, taller-than-buffer images
> display perfectly fine, both inline within my article buffer,

As explained elsewhere, this cannot be true, at least for the values
of "perfectly fine" that I'm using.

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