From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: doc-view.el: about cursor and filename display Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 10:31:23 +0900 Message-ID: <87ve928tck.fsf@catnip.gol.com> 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> <86d4vbczlh.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1192843916 1587 80.91.229.12 (20 Oct 2007 01:31:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:31:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 20 03:31:57 2007 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 1Ij3C0-0002yX-Ji for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:31:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ij3Bt-0006aN-3B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:31:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ij3Bp-0006aI-JF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:31:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ij3Bn-0006a6-7i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:31:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ij3Bn-0006a3-2E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:31:43 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp02.dentaku.gol.com ([203.216.5.72]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ij3Ba-0007Uo-3C; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:31:30 -0400 Original-Received: from 203-216-97-240.dsl.gol.ne.jp ([203.216.97.240] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp02.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1Ij3BW-0007EO-Tc; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 10:31:27 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CDFFB2FF6; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 10:31:23 +0900 (JST) System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <86d4vbczlh.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Fri\, 19 Oct 2007 09\:50\:34 +0200") Original-Lines: 18 X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:81277 Archived-At: David Kastrup writes: >> 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). Unlike postscript, I think editing of pdf files as text is vanishingly rare, even if it's possible, and clearly shouldn't be the default. Clearly it would be nice if choosing the default action for any given file type was easy though... -Miles -- "1971 pickup truck; will trade for guns"