shx can't display remote image files

riscy / shx-for-emacs

An Emacs shell-mode (and comint-mode) extension that enables displaying small plots and graphics and lets users write shell commands in Emacs Lisp.

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shx can't display remote image files #28

Open ricardog opened 3 years ago

ricardog commented 3 years ago

Thank you for developing shx. It really makes emacs shell buffers better.

When I open a remote shell, I can't use the :view command to display an image. I get the following error

ubuntu@vdc:~$ :view Snowflake.png 
convert: unable to open image `/ssh:ubuntu@vdc:/home/ubuntu/Snowflake.png': No such file or directory @ error/blob.c/OpenBlob/2924.
convert: no images defined `/tmp/tmp4vDiai.png' @ error/convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/3229.

Because shx is trying to run convert locally but passing it a tramp file name.

riscy commented 3 years ago

Yeah, this is definitely something that can be improved. I've got my eyes on it. :)

riscy commented 3 years ago

This one is taking a little longer to figure out. I'm not sure why, but running (insert-image (create-image "xyz.png")) in tramp/remote buffer seems to insert an empty square. Meanwhile C-x C-f xyz.png or :e xyz.png opens a buffer with the image correctly displayed.

emacsbliss commented 1 year ago

wonder if we're able to make progress on this? really need this feature in my workflow, thanks!

riscy commented 1 year ago

Thank you for giving this a bump. I'll prioritize seeing if I can find a way around the the hurdle I encountered in the last attempt.