Re: [PATCH] nextstep: Emacs can be used to edit PDF files

[Daniel Martín]

David Edmondson <dme@dme.org> writes:

> Add editor role for PDF files, allowing them to be opened in Emacs via
> the Finder.
> ---
>  nextstep/templates/Info.plist.in | 12 ++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/nextstep/templates/Info.plist.in 
> b/nextstep/templates/Info.plist.in
> index f9f0ec0857..bd86a75e79 100644
> --- a/nextstep/templates/Info.plist.in
> +++ b/nextstep/templates/Info.plist.in
> @@ -488,6 +488,18 @@ along with GNU Emacs.  If not, see 
> <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
>                       <key>CFBundleTypeRole</key>
>                       <string>Editor</string>
>               </dict>
> +             <dict>
> +                     <key>CFBundleTypeExtensions</key>
> +                     <array>
> +                             <string>pdf</string>
> +                     </array>
> +                     <key>CFBundleTypeIconFile</key>
> +                     <string>document.icns</string>
> +                     <key>CFBundleTypeName</key>
> +                     <string>PDF document</string>
> +                     <key>CFBundleTypeRole</key>
> +                     <string>Editor</string>
> +             </dict>
>               <dict>
>                       <key>CFBundleTypeExtensions</key>
>                       <array>

Thanks for the patch, but by default Emacs opens PDF files in
fundamental-mode, which IMO is not very convenient for reading PDFs.
It's true that there's also doc-view-mode, but that requires some extra
configuration.

If someone has configured Emacs to be a good PDF viewer, they can always
force the Open With dialog to open PDFs with Emacs.