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by jumpwah 3934 days ago
Sorry for the late reply. I found it, I got the method from this blog post [1] initally. Also see [2].

However, I'm sad to say that when I tried this again rn, it didn't work anymore. (I know for a fact it used to work great because I used to use it.)

The funny thing is, ranger's image preview still works for me (same terminal and everything), so I guess one could start going through the ranger source code to see how they wrap w3mimagedisplay if they really wanted to.

I don't really have the motivation for that though because, although I'm a heavy terminal user (and it would be nice), recently switching to emacs means a lot of my file management can be done with dired (an emacs package). And dired can do image previews quite nicely already [3] (I'm assuming provided you're using GUI emacs^). ^^

^Emacs can fire up terminals inside it anyway, so using GUI emacs is not a problem for me, even though I'm heavily terminal orientated.

^^Although I think I prefer sxiv's thumbnail mode for browsing directories full of images (as opposed to a few here and there).

[1]: http://blog.z3bra.org/2014/01/images-in-terminal.html

[2]: https://github.com/hut/ranger/wiki/Image-Previews

[3]: https://github.com/ralesi/ranger#screencast