From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Viewing PDFs as text? Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:12:01 +0100 Message-ID: <87ejag5ege.fsf@member.fsf.org> References: <7599507d-11a4-4e93-974f-5d7aa924b152@e6g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <871w6hxhx9.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <87k5k8bav9.fsf@member.fsf.org> <87r6egw9m4.fsf@shellarchive.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205323939 9025 80.91.229.12 (12 Mar 2008 12:12:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:12:19 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 12 13:12:47 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JZPp7-0007oT-RD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:12:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZPoZ-00067g-8q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:12:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZPoU-00065o-T9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:12:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZPoS-00063g-Ll for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:12:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZPoS-00063a-CM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:12:04 -0400 Original-Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JZPoS-0007GD-9U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:12:04 -0400 Original-Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 065F6C4F54 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:12:04 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:12:04 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: kSQaIHdP069N+GrF2EbWAeeubbHLl51I0aU/yivwklaJ 1205323923 Original-Received: from localhost (dslb-084-063-090-188.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.63.90.188]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 2B89A189B6 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:12:02 -0400 (EDT) Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <87r6egw9m4.fsf@shellarchive.co.uk> (Phil Jackson's message of "Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:54:27 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:92272 Archived-At: Phil Jackson writes: Hi Phil, > How about a generic 2txt mode that could use any of the 2txt (odt, > ods, xls, doc, pdf, ps, ...) tools and do the right thing? Sounds like a good idea. Patches welcome. Bye, Tassilo