I had to patch together some various emacs from around the web to get inline images with iimage.el working in emacs exactly the way I wanted. Here’s some info:

  • Load and displays images in org files on initial load
  • Provides a function that allows you to toggle images on and off
  • Specify images you would like to load with the [[file://file.png]] org link type

Here’s the code, you can add it anywhere in your .emacs

;; -- Display images in org mode
;; enable image mode first
(iimage-mode)
;; add the org file link format to the iimage mode regex
(add-to-list 'iimage-mode-image-regex-alist
  (cons (concat "\\[\\[file:\\(~?" iimage-mode-image-filename-regex "\\)\\]")  1))
;;  add a hook so we can display images on load
(add-hook 'org-mode-hook '(lambda () (org-turn-on-iimage-in-org)))
;; function to setup images for display on load
(defun org-turn-on-iimage-in-org ()
  "display images in your org file"
  (interactive)
  (turn-on-iimage-mode)
  (set-face-underline-p 'org-link nil))
;; function to toggle images in a org bugger
(defun org-toggle-iimage-in-org ()
  "display images in your org file"
  (interactive)
  (if (face-underline-p 'org-link)
      (set-face-underline-p 'org-link nil)
      (set-face-underline-p 'org-link t))
  (call-interactively 'iimage-mode))

I have this function bound to C-l with a call like this:


(define-key org-mode-map (kbd "C-S-a") 'org-archive-subtree)