From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Please install: Some improvements to doc-view.el
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:03:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1IfLIC-0004SH-4t@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87abqt2x52.fsf@jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:42:09 +0300)
DocView and the Gnus mailcap mechanism are unrelated features.
They are related because they do the same job: display non-textual
formats for Emacs. They work in different ways, but each can still
substitute for the other. If you have a PDF or PS or DVI file, you
can display it either with doc-view or with the Gnus mailcap
mechanism.
So do we really want both methods? If so, when should each
method be used? Or how should the user choose?
The current code chooses the mailcap mechanism when in Gnus,
and now we have a proposal for Dired to use the doc-view mechanism.
But is there any reason to think those are the right choices?
I have tried to start a discussion of this question,
but nobody else has addressed it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-09 20:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 98+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-02 9:15 Please install: Some improvements to doc-view.el Tassilo Horn
2007-10-02 13:04 ` Davis Herring
2007-10-02 14:42 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-02 16:49 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-02 17:33 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-10-02 18:19 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-03 18:37 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-03 23:29 ` Michaël Cadilhac
2007-10-04 7:53 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-05 16:13 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-05 16:43 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-06 14:16 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-06 23:54 ` Juri Linkov
2007-10-08 15:26 ` Sascha Wilde
2007-10-08 15:51 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-08 19:34 ` Juri Linkov
2007-10-09 9:02 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-09 21:55 ` Juri Linkov
2007-10-11 1:28 ` Doc-view as default viewer for pdf, ps and dvi files (was: Please install: Some improvements to doc-view.el) Tassilo Horn
2007-10-12 2:46 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-12 13:09 ` Doc-view as default viewer for pdf, ps and dvi files Tassilo Horn
2007-10-13 0:18 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-13 8:25 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-13 19:48 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-17 23:34 ` Juri Linkov
2007-10-18 6:47 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-18 8:28 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-07 13:10 ` Please install: Some improvements to doc-view.el Richard Stallman
2007-10-08 19:42 ` Juri Linkov
2007-10-09 20:03 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2007-10-09 21:30 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-15 18:31 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-15 20:58 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-17 23:49 ` Scrolling in doc-view Chong Yidong
2007-10-18 6:27 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-18 8:29 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-09 21:54 ` Please install: Some improvements to doc-view.el Juri Linkov
2007-10-09 22:17 ` mailcap viewers in dired; gnus-dired.el, mailcap.el (was: Please install: Some improvements to doc-view.el) Reiner Steib
2007-10-09 22:47 ` Juri Linkov
2007-10-10 21:20 ` mailcap viewers in dired; gnus-dired.el, mailcap.el Reiner Steib
2007-10-10 23:43 ` Juri Linkov
2007-10-15 1:37 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-15 23:46 ` Juri Linkov
2007-10-16 6:49 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-18 17:48 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2007-10-19 5:40 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-15 1:37 ` Please install: Some improvements to doc-view.el Richard Stallman
2007-10-15 23:45 ` Juri Linkov
2007-10-16 19:09 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-16 19:26 ` Leo
2007-10-17 5:03 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-17 10:15 ` Leo
2007-10-17 20:49 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-17 21:12 ` Leo
2007-10-19 5:40 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-17 22:04 ` doc-view and mailcap (was: Please install: Some improvements to doc-view.el) Reiner Steib
2007-10-17 23:35 ` doc-view and mailcap Juri Linkov
2007-10-18 7:31 ` Reiner Steib
2007-11-25 22:53 ` Reiner Steib
2007-11-26 11:16 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-12-01 18:26 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-12-01 19:50 ` Reiner Steib
2007-12-03 0:33 ` Juri Linkov
2007-12-03 7:41 ` Reiner Steib
2007-12-03 8:18 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-12-03 18:42 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-03 22:16 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-12-03 22:55 ` Juri Linkov
2007-12-04 9:20 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-12-04 18:22 ` Reiner Steib
2007-12-04 22:45 ` Juri Linkov
2007-12-05 10:08 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-12-05 20:02 ` Reiner Steib
2007-12-05 22:45 ` Juri Linkov
2007-10-16 20:43 ` doc-view and mailcap (was: Please install: Some improvements to doc-view.el) Reiner Steib
2007-10-17 1:16 ` doc-view and mailcap Stefan Monnier
2007-10-17 14:10 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-17 14:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-17 16:55 ` Reiner Steib
2007-10-17 23:36 ` Juri Linkov
2007-10-18 5:02 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-17 5:03 ` doc-view and mailcap (was: Please install: Some improvements to doc-view.el) Richard Stallman
2007-10-17 17:59 ` doc-view and mailcap Reiner Steib
2007-10-17 20:32 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-17 21:45 ` Reiner Steib
2007-10-18 4:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-18 7:33 ` Reiner Steib
2007-10-18 8:24 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-18 6:24 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-18 20:08 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-18 20:30 ` Reiner Steib
2007-10-18 21:22 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-19 0:42 ` Juri Linkov
2007-10-19 17:42 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-16 23:52 ` Please install: Some improvements to doc-view.el Juri Linkov
2007-10-06 21:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-07 13:10 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-07 0:30 ` Richard Stallman
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