unofficial mirror of help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: poti@potis.org
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: no-word.el fails on Windows NT
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 18:17:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070523221703.GA17408@mail.potis.org> (raw)

I am looking for an emacs interface for reading Microsoft Word
documents. I have been using antiword, which is fine and has 
an emacs mode provided by no-word.el. This works fine on OSX and 
Linux. However, when I visit a doc file on Windows NT, I get the
following error:

- is not a Word Document.


This appears to be related to the following elisp code:
	  (if file (replace-regexp-in-string " " "\\ " file t t) "-")
which is concatenated to the command "antiword" and options.
This is in the no-word function, where file is optional. 
Apparently, visiting the file does not pass a file to this function. 
This is as much as I can figure out. Why is the behavior different on 
Windows, is there a fix that will work as expected across platforms?

Also, is there a mode for Wv? If not, I thought if I could understand 
how no-word.el works, I would try modifying it to work for Wv.

The problem persists as of the following Emacs:
GNU Emacs 22.0.990.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2007-05-20 on NEUTRINO

             reply	other threads:[~2007-05-23 22:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-23 22:17 poti [this message]
2007-05-24  7:21 ` no-word.el fails on Windows NT Eli Zaretskii
2007-05-24 20:07   ` poti
2007-05-25  5:31     ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-05-25  6:22       ` poti
2007-05-25 12:45         ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-05-31  6:33   ` poti
2007-06-01 14:05     ` Kevin Rodgers
2007-06-06  1:40       ` poti

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20070523221703.GA17408@mail.potis.org \
    --to=poti@potis.org \
    --cc=help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).