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Re: Doc-view as default viewer for pdf, ps and dvi files
From: |
Tassilo Horn |
Subject: |
Re: Doc-view as default viewer for pdf, ps and dvi files |
Date: |
Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:09:40 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> Whenever you find such a file it will be opened with doc-view-mode
> in a text representation. If emacs was compiled with image (png)
> support, it will be switched to the rendered image presentation
> immediately, otherwise we stay in the text display mode.
>
> I want to make sure I understand right.
>
> If Emacs does not have PNG support, doc-view cannot show the image,
> and C-c C-c won't really do anything.
It toggles, but in the image display only
[page-22.png]
is displayed instead of the image.
> If Emacs does have PNG support, doc-view will display the file
> graphically at first, and you only need C-c C-c if you want to see the
> text.
>
> Is that right? Please tell me if any part of that is not correct.
Yes, that's correct.
> Both display modes are read-only. With `C-c C-e' one can switch
> to an appropriate editing mode -- ps-mode for ps files and
> fundamental-mode for pdf and dvi files.
>
> Why not do this by default?
Because with C-c C-c you can toggle between image or text display, but
you wen't leave doc-view-mode. After C-c C-e you switch to another
major mode and cannot toggle back with another C-c C-e.
Bye,
Tassilo
- Re: Please install: Some improvements to doc-view.el, (continued)
- Re: Please install: Some improvements to doc-view.el, Tassilo Horn, 2007/10/05
- Re: Please install: Some improvements to doc-view.el, Tassilo Horn, 2007/10/06
- Re: Please install: Some improvements to doc-view.el, Juri Linkov, 2007/10/06
- Re: Please install: Some improvements to doc-view.el, Sascha Wilde, 2007/10/08
- Re: Please install: Some improvements to doc-view.el, Tassilo Horn, 2007/10/08
- Re: Please install: Some improvements to doc-view.el, Juri Linkov, 2007/10/08
- Re: Please install: Some improvements to doc-view.el, Tassilo Horn, 2007/10/09
- Re: Please install: Some improvements to doc-view.el, Juri Linkov, 2007/10/09
- Doc-view as default viewer for pdf, ps and dvi files (was: Please install: Some improvements to doc-view.el), Tassilo Horn, 2007/10/10
- Re: Doc-view as default viewer for pdf, ps and dvi files (was: Please install: Some improvements to doc-view.el), Richard Stallman, 2007/10/11
- Re: Doc-view as default viewer for pdf, ps and dvi files,
Tassilo Horn <=
- Re: Doc-view as default viewer for pdf, ps and dvi files, Richard Stallman, 2007/10/12
- Re: Doc-view as default viewer for pdf, ps and dvi files, Tassilo Horn, 2007/10/13
- Re: Doc-view as default viewer for pdf, ps and dvi files, Richard Stallman, 2007/10/13
- Re: Doc-view as default viewer for pdf, ps and dvi files, Juri Linkov, 2007/10/17
- Re: Doc-view as default viewer for pdf, ps and dvi files, Tassilo Horn, 2007/10/18
- Re: Doc-view as default viewer for pdf, ps and dvi files, Tassilo Horn, 2007/10/18
- Re: Please install: Some improvements to doc-view.el, Richard Stallman, 2007/10/07
- Re: Please install: Some improvements to doc-view.el, Juri Linkov, 2007/10/08
- Re: Please install: Some improvements to doc-view.el, Richard Stallman, 2007/10/09
- Re: Please install: Some improvements to doc-view.el, Tassilo Horn, 2007/10/09