From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: doc-view.el: about cursor and filename display Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:50:34 +0200 Message-ID: <86d4vbczlh.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> References: <87r6jw20p3.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> <87przfbm9t.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> <876416qgnr.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> <876415a55w.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> <200710172329.l9HNTO4F010666@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1192780254 17815 80.91.229.10 (19 Oct 2007 07:50:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:50:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Miles Bader To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 19 09:52:48 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Iimf0-00010H-B0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:52:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Iimd2-0004eP-UI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:50:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Iimcy-0004bc-Uk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:50:40 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Iimcv-0004Y3-9t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:50:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Iimcv-0004Xq-22 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:50:37 -0400 Original-Received: from pc3.berlin.powerweb.de ([62.67.228.11]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Iimcu-0003tT-Ku for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:50:37 -0400 Original-Received: from quinscape.de (dslnet.212-29-44.ip210.dokom.de [212.29.44.210] (may be forged)) by pc3.berlin.powerweb.de (8.9.3p3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA10609 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:50:34 +0200 X-Delivered-To: Original-Received: (qmail 4344 invoked from network); 19 Oct 2007 07:50:34 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost (quinx.quinscape.de [127.0.0.1]) by quinx.quinscape.de (AvMailGate-2.1.3-2) id 4340-gioCKh; Fr, 19 Okt 2007 09:50:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from unknown (HELO lola.quinscape.zz) ([10.0.3.43]) (envelope-sender ) by ns.quinscape.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 19 Oct 2007 07:50:34 -0000 Original-Received: by lola.quinscape.zz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2871A8F281; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:50:34 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri\, 19 Oct 2007 01\:40\:18 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-AntiVirus: checked by AntiVir MailGate (version: 2.1.3-2; AVE: 7.6.0.27; VDF: 7.0.0.108; host: quinx) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:81200 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > I'd guess in such cases, given that Emacs is fundamentally a > text-editor, it seems best to do something like Emacs already does for > .xpm files: display as text (in postscript-mode or whatever) with a > message saying "Type C-c C-c to view the printed form of this document." > > Thus, for PS, we would show the text initially; for PDF and DVI, we > would show the rendered form initially. That seems ok. I am actually looking at PDF source quite often. It is, after all, more or less a restricted form of PostScript as long as one does not use compression (but compression can be used in PostScript, too). -- David Kastrup