Re: Displaying SVG with embedded links

Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.help
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> From: Michael Heerdegen <[email protected]>
> Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:11:03 +0200
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Do I have a chance to display an SVG image with embedded links inside
> Emacs so that those embedded links are clickable?  So far, I have the
> impression that such a feature is not supported out of the box.
> 
> Background: I have started using LilyPond to create music scores.
> LilyPond implements a feature called "point in click": the result (PDF
> or SVG) has embedded clickable links.  When you click on them, your
> editor pops up with the cursor positioned at the respective position in
> the source file.  If SVG display in Emacs would support clickable links,
> I could have a solution completely inside Emacs, without relying on
> external programs.

AFAIK, this is not supported directly, but you could have a :map
property in the image descriptor that makes portions of the image
sensitive to clicks.  See the node "Image Descriptors" in the ELisp
manual for more.
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