From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: disabling doc-view mode Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:18:48 +1100 Organization: Rapt Technologies Message-ID: <87zl5ytmbb.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> References: <878wdjuqcc.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259966579 10541 80.91.229.12 (4 Dec 2009 22:42:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 22:42:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 04 23:42:52 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NGgrU-0007B6-Br for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:42:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60932 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NGgrU-0004vY-0o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:42:52 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!news.glorb.com!news.astraweb.com!border1.newsrouter.astraweb.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:MMDDtwKVhw8hC1qNxIR90qaQZ4k= Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62f71806.news.astraweb.com Original-X-Trace: DXC=XJlJd^?Z6EJ; VG4@4l?MF3jG8S6WC]DK^M5AZhX[6=@ Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:175337 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:70413 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn writes: > Tim X writes: > >> Does anyone know how to disable/stop doc-view mode from attempting to >> convert files when you are in dired and you hit view-file on a ps, pdf, >> file? > > I'm a bit curious. Which mode would you expect when trying to view an > ps/pdf/dvi file in emacs? > I have my own conversion mode which I've been running for the past 9 years. The image rendering of files is of no use to me - I need the files converted into plain text. Unfortunately, the two are treading on each others toes. I know that I would probably be able to do something with doc-view mode to give me what I want, but the mode I've written also handles doc, docx, xls and ppt, plus integrates with browse-url so that if I try to view-file on any of these types, it gives me a text rendering that I can use. It is also a lot faster than doc-view. I need it in text because I use emacspeak and it won't work with images. Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au