From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: mrf Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Use `M-x describe-char' to inspect the characters of a pdf file. Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2021 21:22:02 +0300 Message-ID: <87r1gadlso.fsf@cock.li> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="10309"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: mu4e 1.5.8; emacs 27.2 Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Hongyi Zhao Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 07 20:24:33 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1m1CDn-0002T4-7A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 07 Jul 2021 20:24:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60924 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m1CDm-0000g5-7U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 07 Jul 2021 14:24:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58440) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m1CDE-0000ft-K3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Jul 2021 14:23:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.cock.li ([37.120.193.124]:56320) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m1CDC-0005mp-Gm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Jul 2021 14:23:56 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=cock.li; s=mail; t=1625682219; bh=z2p7dxmWhVRbGJWcomYQZajmFWevpNircxWj3XpeeFQ=; h=References:From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-reply-to:From; b=Oa8yio+HEGsseIcs7kTFOGSqFg27kLWMgqPWevKF4sTK5b+jltHLHuttM73CGf0FH X63D7c72NyTMNupcYXcIaI9En9r0pANI4w+0o1ouF/v/ijbm+lyf6vU55f+TRLXm+N R9nqTFTQ9KwjXSdxrd9ROcy4qLwJLwzgp0AvpqT48v3aVh4cuSxemjLsf5ISvbS+hq GzcZO9Yq/QQMNZyxFsebWqJFSKhWLM1DY0KG/aig+0fbw9RxlhSNE+VV6lfOx7FNBh KiHz5Fp9rDpGGDcBnqjENy+3nZBgZFBwkjG+/Gq6g/tqTRle3OX69RrTaDqDS2+cm3 pLSNTIIp0PUyQ== In-reply-to: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=37.120.193.124; envelope-from=joinlaw@cock.li; helo=mail.cock.li X-Spam_score_int: 25 X-Spam_score: 2.5 X-Spam_bar: ++ X-Spam_report: (2.5 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_PBL=3.335, RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_RPBL=1.31, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:131613 Archived-At: Hongyi Zhao writes: > I'm using pdf-tools [1] as the in-line PDF viewer of Emacs. Can I use > `M-x describe-char' to inspect/check the characters in the PDF file? > > [1] https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools > > Regards Possible solution is to copy that char with M-w and paste it in other buffer such as *scratch* and then inspect it. I think this would be useful to inspect utf8 math symbol included in pdf.