Questions tagged [previewing]

for preview of markup buffers, such as latex or markdown. Preview feature displays the editing buffer without an additional step of generating a preview.

Other related tags include for LaTeX buffers and for image files.

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How do I do live Markdown previewing as I'm writing it?

How can I do that either in a different buffer or even in the current buffer? I'm trying to do Github README.md and other Github rendering of Markdown (for notes and such),
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Org mode: is it possible to display ONLINE images?

Assuming I want to have an org buffer in which I can preview images from url which I don't want to store on my hard drive - is there a possibility to use a solution similar to org links and display images functions? I know I can use…
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Rapidly preview files

Similar to this question, I'd like a tool/minor mode to quickly preview my files by merely having the cursor positioned over them (e.g. the currently selected file is displayed in the active buffer window). I don't care about depressing events and I…
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Which image viewer for large image collections?

From the built-in and MELPA available packages, which combination offers the easiest approach to managing a large collection of images (over 100K) in various formats (raw, jpg, tiff, png). I mainly want to view thumbnails, view full images to fit on…
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Scaling of inline SVG previews in org-mode

If I insert a jpg in my org-mode document, I can preview it and scale its width, like so: Add the following code to my init.el file: (setq org-image-actual-width nil) Then insert this code in my document, where I want the image to…
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Live view an html document in emacs

Running emacs 25.2.2. Here is something (apparently) simple I want to do, but am unable to: I am editing an html document. I want to see the same document in the internal browser in a vertically split window. Now, if I make any changes to my html…
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Typing in Live-Rendered Markdown

I know there are ways to preview markdown as you type but is there a way to avoid this duplication of text (rendered and pain text in different buffers)? Basically, I want to type in the preview. What I'm looking for goes like this: As I type in #…
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Preview images, and PDFs inside a SSH terminal session or inside emacsclient session via SSH?

I work remotely to Linux servers, writing R scripts with ESS. Rstudio works well if I have a fast and stable GUI-based remote desktop connection to the server. Rstudio server also works OK if I have the server running and now problems with managing…
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How do I live preview markdown, rendering math, checkboxes, etc.?

I’m using Spacemacs with markdown-mode and I’ve configured it according to Jason Blevins’ guide. Other things I’ve tried Pandoc works pretty well except when I set the —lua-filter=task-list.lua flag and I don’t have chackboxes to render (but it…
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How can I live-preview org-mode for readme files?

I am using org-mode to format readme files. When I commit a README.org file into github.com, I am able to see its formatted preview. But since I make a lot of changes, I have to keep commit to see its final preview. => Markdown has some editors…
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preview and edit side-by-side, maybe by syncronizing buffers?

Many major modes provide a function to switch between editing and preview rendering a file. I am specifically looking at ps-mode but an answer that applies to others would be nice. I can open the same buffer in two windows, but switching between…
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Previewing large images in emacs

I've found that if I open an image in Emacs over 1MB it starts to take a while. I justed opened up a 3MB and it took 16seconds. I'm just using the default image-mode is there a better way? Is there a way to shrink the preview image before putting…
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Embed a youtube video in org-mode buffer

I would like to display a youtube (or locally hosted) video inside an org-mode buffer, similar to how org-toggle-inline-images will preview an image file. How can I do this?
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How to render latex expressions (not necessarily formula) inside buffer?

By preview-latex on can render latex formulae inside a tex buffer. The package px package renders latex formular inside an arbitrary buffer (see https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/219/). A similar question: How to render latex expressions (not…
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Add an article preview to the gnus-summary-line-format

I am using gnus to read my email and the current setting for the gnus-summary-line-format in my .gnus.el is (gnus-summary-line-format "%U%~(pad-left 5)R: %~(max-right 25)D | %~(pad-right 25)~(max-right 25)a | %~(max-right 50)s \n") Is there a…
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