[VM] Don't display images unless alt text exists

[Yeechang Lee]

I have set up VM 8.1.2 to do a great job in displaying HTML messages
with emacs-w3m. I use a text terminal, which means emacs-w3m turns
images into text "buttons"; if there is no alt text, the text is
constructed from the filename of the image. Is it possible to only see
images (whether ordinary images or links) if there is alt text? In
other words, if there is no alt text, I'd rather see nothing than the
gibberish of images' file names.

[Uday Reddy]

Post by Yeechang Lee
I have set up VM 8.1.2 to do a great job in displaying HTML messages
with emacs-w3m. I use a text terminal, which means emacs-w3m turns
images into text "buttons"; if there is no alt text, the text is
constructed from the filename of the image. Is it possible to only see
images (whether ordinary images or links) if there is alt text? In
other words, if there is no alt text, I'd rather see nothing than the
gibberish of images' file names.

I couldn't understand that. It seems that you don't want the file names
displayed for image files.

I guess this is a question for emacs-w3m folks. Please ask there. The
email address is

emacs-***@namazu.org

Cheers,
Uday

[Gian Uberto Lauri]

I started tinkering to prevent vm to download messages unless I really
open them.

I tried to change the value of vm-imap-max-message-size variable, but
I did not get the desired behaviour. What did I wrong?

I am uising vm version 8.1.1 on GNU Emacs 24.4.1
(x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.10)

[Uday Reddy]

Post by Gian Uberto Lauri
I started tinkering to prevent vm to download messages unless I really
open them.
I tried to change the value of vm-imap-max-message-size variable, but
I did not get the desired behaviour. What did I wrong?
I am uising vm version 8.1.1 on GNU Emacs 24.4.1
(x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.10)

Use the version 8.2.0b from the Launchpad VM site. The manual section
Getting started > External Messages explains what you need to do.

Cheers,
Uday