Re: Can Emacs started with `-nw' option view pdf with pdf-tools?

[Arthur Miller]

Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm using auctex and pdf-tools with Emacs,  and find that if I start
> Emacs with `emacs -nw`, the pdf-tools won't let me preview pdf.
>
> Any hints?
>
> Regards

Yes you need a GUI window to display images (which is what pdf-tools
does).

Albeit a virtual terminal in X (or console in Win32) are implemented in
a platform window, they don't expose windowing capabilities but pretend
they are old-fashioned consoles without gui capabilities.