From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Martin Rubey Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: doc-view.el --- View PDF/PostStript/DVI files in Emacs Date: 26 Aug 2007 15:49:50 +0200 Message-ID: <9q4pimpfr5.fsf@aquin.mat.univie.ac.at> References: <87wsvnfoyp.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> <87zm0i6gq2.fsf@gnu.org> <87d4xe6f6z.fsf@gnu.org> <87zm0hq6kz.fsf@gnu.org> <87hcmoc1tg.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> <87d4xcoxyn.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1188139235 29548 80.91.229.12 (26 Aug 2007 14:40:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 14:40:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 26 16:40:33 2007 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 1IPJI0-0001Qg-VK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 16:40:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IPJI0-0006YF-EE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 10:40:32 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsserver.news.garr.it!newscore.univie.ac.at!aconews-feed.univie.ac.at!aconews.univie.ac.at!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: aquin.mat.univie.ac.at Original-X-Trace: 1188136190 usenet.univie.ac.at 28520 131.130.16.163 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@univie.ac.at Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:151298 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:46867 Archived-At: Dear all, I saw doc-view.el this week and was hoping that it would be the thing I was looking for since years. Well, unfortunately, it doesn't *quite* do what I want: I'd really like to have a (reasonably fast,) full-featured dvi/ps/pdf viewer that I can control from within emacs. In particular, I'd like to be able to search and copy text as in kdvi / kpdf. Furthermore, rendering should be fast, so that modifying the LaTeX and pressing C-c C-c Ret should update the buffer quickly. I wonder why this is appears so difficult to achieve. Wouldn't it be possible to have an X application running inside an emacs buffer? The standard application for me would be to have my LaTeX source in one buffer, kdvi in another, and C-x b gets me to that buffer. Using the window-managers keybinding for switching to another application really does only half the job, it's just not "as nice"... I saw the xwem project a while ago, but it looks roughly dead, does more than I need and moreover it doesn't work for gnu emacs... Well, still, doc-view is quite nice, Martin