insert image into text buffer

Question

If I place

(insert-image (create-image \"/tmp/test.png\"))

in a buffer, place the cursor after the last parenthesis and evaluate it with

Answer 1

Depending on exactly what you want to achieve, you might try one the the following ideas:

1. use org-mode as your buffer's major mode. You then have access to all the power of org-mode formatting, which includes linking to image files and displaying them:

an image without description
[[file:/tmp/image.png]]

an image with description
[[file:/tmp/image.png][my description]]

then you can call org-toggle-inline-images (C-c C-x C-v) to display images in the buffer (without a prefix argument, it will display only images without description; if you give a prefix argument, it will display all images)

2. write your own elisp code to insert images where you want them, and put it in an eval local pseudo-variable so that it is called when opening the file. For example:

foo

bar

# Local Variables:
#   eval: (progn (beginning-of-buffer)(search-forward "")(insert-image (create-image "/tmp/image.png")))
# End:

You can of course wrap the elisp code into a neat function and simply call it from the eval local variable (which is cleaner, but forces you to have the function definition somewhere else, away from your file)