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From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: bug#5118: DocView: copy/search text
Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:59:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <hfd7de$kh5$2@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hbs7bvbw.fsf@mail.jurta.org>

Juri Linkov wrote:
> Package: emacs,doc-view
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Please add two features that would be easy to implement:
> 
> 1. Copying the text of the current page to the kill ring.

I don't know anything about DocView, but shouldn't that be possible
in any major mode via C-x C-p (mark-page) then M-w (kill-ring-save)?

> PDF viewers allow selecting a rectangular area to copy it to the
> clipboard.  If this is not possible in DocView, then at least copying
> the text of the whole page would be a satisfactory compensation.
> Info and Dired bind similar commands to `w'.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA







  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-05  8:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-04  0:03 bug#5118: DocView: copy/search text Juri Linkov
2009-12-05  8:59 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2009-12-05 19:47   ` Juri Linkov
2009-12-05 21:12     ` Stefan Monnier
2009-12-05 23:21       ` Juri Linkov

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