Re: doc-view.el: about cursor and filename display

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:

> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>>>   > Index: lisp/files.el
>>>>   > ===================================================================
>>>>   > RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/lisp/files.el,v
>>>>   > retrieving revision 1.932
>>>>   > diff -u -r1.932 files.el
>>>>   > --- lisp/files.el	15 Oct 2007 02:07:46 -0000	1.932
>>>>   > +++ lisp/files.el	17 Oct 2007 19:51:46 -0000
>>>>   > @@ -2059,7 +2059,7 @@
>>>>   >       ("\\.\\(as\\|mi\\|sm\\)2\\'" . snmpv2-mode)
>>>>   >       ("\\.\\(diffs?\\|patch\\|rej\\)\\'" . diff-mode)
>>>>   >       ("\\.\\(dif\\|pat\\)\\'" . diff-mode) ; for MSDOG
>>>>   > -     ("\\.[eE]?[pP][sS]\\'" . ps-mode)
>>>>   > +     ("\\(?:DVI\\|EPS\\|P\\(?:DF\\|S\\)\\|dvi\\|eps\\|p\\(?:df\\|s\\)\\)" . doc-view-mode)
>>>>
>>>> Is this a good idea? 
>>>> PostScript is not only used for documents, but it is also a
>>>> programming language. How likely is it that someone that does a C-x
>>>> C-f for a ps file does it in order to view it, not to edit it?
>>>
>>> When people know doc-view it's very likely.
>>
>> No, it isn't.  We can do a poll if you think otherwise.
>
> Ok, ok.  On my todo list is an entry that inside doc-view-mode `C-c C-c'
> should toggle between "a real editing major mode" (e.g. ps-mode) and
> doc-view-mode.

I think for our various image view modes, C-x C-r should preferably
start the viewer, but C-x C-f should possibly start the editor.  At
the very least, C-u C-x C-f should start the editor, "I mean it!".

-- 
David Kastrup