Re: viewing x-faces on the console

[csj@myrealbox.com]

On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 20:53:25 +0900,
Tatsuya Kinoshita wrote:
> 
> On August 17, 2003 at 6:42AM +0800,
> csj <csj@myrealbox.com> wrote:
> 
> > I seem to recall being able to view x-faces on the console a
> > few months back.  To be sure the x-face appears on its own
> > buffer, rather than in-line.
> > 
> > Now I can only see them when running emacs under X (although
> > I can save the x-face with the command x-face-save and view
> > the resultant file with say fbi).  Aside from my MUA,
> > wanderlust, I have the following packages installed:
> > x-face-el, select-xface and bitmap-mule.
> 
> Latest version of Debian x-face-el (1.3.6.23-3) has a
> conditional `(if (not window-system) nil (...)'.  It might
> cause your problem.
> 
> I didn't want to load x-face related functions when `emacs
> -nw'.  I don't know the console environment well.
> 
> Does anybody have any suggestions for the x-face-el startup
> file?

I looked at the files in /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/x-face-el/.
It seems x-face-e21.el lacks the function "x-face-ascii-view",
which can be found in x-face-xmas.el and x-face.el.

Is there a way to include this function in x-face-e21.el?  I just
used emacs -l x-face-e21.el to test.