* mu4e: do a better job of trying to show images (without delay)

mu4e/mu4e-utils.el

@@ -600,6 +600,7 @@ and fill the list `mu4e~contacts-for-completion' with it, with
 each element looking like
   name <email>
 This is used by the completion function in mu4e-compose."
+  (setq mu4e~contact-list contacts)
   (let ((lst)
 	 ;; sort by the frequency (descending), then timestamp (descending)
 	 ;; FIXME: sadly, the emacs completion subsystem re-sorts the list
@@ -929,11 +930,11 @@ This includes expanding e.g. 3-5 into 3,4,5.  If the letter
 (defvar mu4e-imagemagick-identify "identify"
   "Name/path of the Imagemagick 'identify' program.")
 
-(defun mu4e-display-image (imgpath &optional maxwidth)
-  "Display image IMG at point; optionally specify
-MAXWIDTH. Function tries to use imagemagick if available (ie.,
+(defun mu4e-display-image (imgpath &optional maxwidth maxheight)
+  "Display image IMG at point; optionally specify MAXWIDTH and
+MAXHEIGHT. Function tries to use imagemagick if available (ie.,
 emacs was compiled with inmagemagick support); otherwise MAXWIDTH
-is ignored."
+and MAXHEIGHT are ignored."
   (let* ((have-im (and (fboundp 'imagemagick-types)
 		    (imagemagick-types))) ;; hmm, should check for specific type
 	  (identify (and have-im maxwidth
@@ -949,8 +950,12 @@ is ignored."
 		 (create-image imgpath))))
     ;;(message "DISPLAY: %S %S" imgpath img)
     (when img
-      (newline)
-      (insert-image img))))
+      (insert "\n")
+      (let ((size (image-size img))) ;; inspired by gnus..
+	(insert-char ?\n (max 0 (round (- (window-height) (or maxheight (cdr size)) 1) 2)))
+	(insert-char ?\  (max 0 (round (- (window-width)  (or maxwidth (car size))) 2)))
+	(insert-image img)))))
+ 
 
 (defun mu4e-hide-other-mu4e-buffers ()
   "Bury mu4e-buffers (main, headers, view) (and delete all windows

mu4e/mu4e-view.el

@@ -80,6 +80,13 @@ This is only effective if you're using an emacs with Imagemagick
 support, and `mu4e-view-show-images' is non-nil."
   :group 'mu4e-view)
 
+(defcustom mu4e-view-image-max-height 600
+  "The maximum height for images to display.
+This is only effective if you're using an emacs with Imagemagick
+support, and `mu4e-view-show-images' is non-nil."
+  :group 'mu4e-view)
+
+
 (defcustom mu4e-view-scroll-to-next t
   "If non-nil, move to the next message when calling
 `mu4e-view-scroll-up-or-next' (typically bound to SPC) when at the
@@ -743,7 +750,9 @@ What browser is called is depending on
 	    (when (and imgfile (file-exists-p imgfile))
 	      (save-excursion
 		(goto-char (point-max))
-		(mu4e-display-image imgfile mu4e-view-image-max-width)))))))))
+		(mu4e-display-image imgfile
+		  mu4e-view-image-max-width
+		  mu4e-view-image-max-height)))))))))
 
 ;; this is fairly simplistic...
 (defun mu4e~view-make-urls-clickable ()

mu4e/mu4e.texi

@@ -2831,9 +2831,7 @@ default for various reasons.
 (setq mu4e-attachment-dir "~/Desktop")
 
 ;; attempt to show images when viewing messages
-(setq
-  mu4e-view-show-images t
-  mu4e-view-image-max-width 800)
+(setq mu4e-view-show-images t)
 @end lisp
 
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