RE: how to not show images?

[Drew Adams]

    > You might want to select all of the text, without picking up the
    > images, to send the text to some application.
    
    Have you actually tried doing that?
No.

    > You might be accessing a bunch of documents remotely, and don't want
    > to deal with the load time (as you mentioned).
    >
    > You might want to copy+paste to an application, without including
    > the images.
    
    Have you tried doing that?
No
    
    > whether there might be a global image-display toggle.
    
    Put a high-priority overlay with "display nil" property over the
    buffer?  I have not tried it; it may do nothing or crash Emacs for all
    that I know.

I'll give it a try, once I figure out how to do it.