From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: doc-view.el: about cursor and filename display Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 16:56:10 +0200 Message-ID: <85lk9wa54l.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> 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> <87ve928tck.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1192978547 26030 80.91.229.12 (21 Oct 2007 14:55:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 14:55:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 21 16:55:47 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 1IjcDF-00030I-SC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 16:55:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IjcD8-0007Sw-6u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 10:55:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IjcD4-0007Sr-Di for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 10:55:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IjcD3-0007SD-OZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 10:55:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IjcD3-0007Rx-EF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 10:55:21 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IjcD2-0000Yt-UA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 10:55:21 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IjcCw-0006uZ-N8; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 10:55:14 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 97E6B1C4D4B3; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 16:56:10 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <87ve928tck.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Sat\, 20 Oct 2007 10\:31\:23 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) 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:81370 Archived-At: Miles Bader writes: > 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... There is a difference to PostScript, actually: when I am looking at PDF, I am only _reading_ it, ever (PDF contains file offset tables at the end which makes it rather inconvenient to hand-edit). One can actually write PostScript, in contrast. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum