Re: 23.0.50; Small problems with doc-view.el

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> Does it also work for files accessed via Tramp, now?

> Yes, now it does.  But it looses the connection to the original remote
> file, so if you open a remote pdf and do C-c C-c to edit it, these
> changes won't be propagated back to the remote host.  The same applies
> to compressed documents and documents in archives.

> If you edit a remote PS file with tramp C-x C-s will save the updated
> file to the remote host.  But as soon as you hit C-c C-c the current
> buffer contents are saved to a file in doc-view-cache-directory which is
> then converted.  Switching back to editing will open that file instead
> of the original file.  That might be a problem...

Indeed, that's not a feature.  Why is that?  Can't you just save the
buffer's contents to some temp local file and save the name of that file
to doc-view-buffer-file-name or somesuch?


        Stefan