From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#5118: DocView: copy/search text Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:47:50 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87pr6te9tt.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <87hbs7bvbw.fsf@mail.jurta.org> Reply-To: Juri Linkov , 5118@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1260043705 27332 80.91.229.12 (5 Dec 2009 20:08:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 20:08:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 5118@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, Tassilo Horn To: Kevin Rodgers Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 05 21:08:18 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NH0vO-0004NK-VT for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:08:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43287 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NH0vO-0003Zu-NG for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:08:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NH0ul-00038P-4g for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:07:35 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NH0ug-00035X-Py for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:07:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50177 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NH0ug-00035L-Iz for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:07:30 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:54794) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NH0uf-000411-OU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:07:30 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id nB5K7POK024448; Sat, 5 Dec 2009 12:07:27 -0800 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id nB5JtBJK022506; Sat, 5 Dec 2009 11:55:11 -0800 Resent-Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 11:55:11 -0800 X-Loop: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Juri Linkov Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs , owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com 2Resent-Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:55:11 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: followup 5118 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs,doc-view X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 5118-submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B5118.126004276122228 (code B ref 5118); Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:55:11 +0000 Original-Received: (at 5118) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 5 Dec 2009 19:52:41 +0000 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. Original-Received: from mx1.starman.ee (smtp-out3.starman.ee [85.253.0.5]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id nB5JqeWd022223 for <5118@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>; Sat, 5 Dec 2009 11:52:41 -0800 X-Virus-Scanned: by Amavisd-New at mx1.starman.ee Original-Received: from mail.starman.ee (82.131.97.127.cable.starman.ee [82.131.97.127]) by mx1.starman.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16E583F40E0; Sat, 5 Dec 2009 21:52:33 +0200 (EET) In-Reply-To: (Kevin Rodgers's message of "Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:59:26 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Resent-Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:07:34 -0500 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:33259 Archived-At: >> Please add two features that would be easy to implement: >> >> 1. Copying the text of the current page to the kill ring. > > I don't know anything about DocView, but shouldn't that be possible > in any major mode via C-x C-p (mark-page) then M-w (kill-ring-save)? `C-x C-p' and `M-w' will copy binary data, whereas `pdftotext' converts it to plain text in a hidden buffer that can be displayed with `C-c C-t' where you can do `C-x C-p' and `M-w'. But the problem is that it's difficult to find the current page in the text representation to be able to copy it. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/