From: era <era+emacs@iki.fi>
To: "Richard Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>, 20891@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20891: emacs: Back off if .doc is not an Office document
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 10:29:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <82f50332-0279-4df9-83bd-d0161a3d5bde@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1iSZfy-0003kX-Cl@fencepost.gnu.org>
On Thu, Nov 7, 2019, at 06:45, Richard Stallman wrote:
> > So, as long as we lack editing capabilities, showing an image of the
> > document in Emacs is actually pretty useful.
> How would Emacs do that?
The Emacs-side entry point seems to be doc-view-mode-maybe, which is hooked in auto-mode-alist for a number of file name extensions.
As described in https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DocViewMode it relies on external utilities to provide the actual image.
I was unable to quickly repro in a fresh Debian or Ubuntu image, but that might be because I didn't have the external utility installed.
Tangentially, googling for doc-view-mode-maybe suggests that lots of people are annoyed by it and want to turn it off, probably often for related but distinct reasons.
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-24 11:19 bug#20891: emacs: Back off if .doc is not an Office document era+emacs
2019-08-01 20:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-06 1:53 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-06 13:08 ` era
2019-11-06 23:19 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-07 4:45 ` Richard Stallman
2019-11-07 8:29 ` era [this message]
2019-11-08 20:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-09 6:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-09 20:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-14 8:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-14 9:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-14 14:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-14 15:06 ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-14 16:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-14 16:33 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-11-14 16:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-15 7:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-15 8:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-15 8:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-15 9:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-15 13:20 ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-15 9:14 ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-15 7:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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