From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#5118: DocView: copy/search text Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:59:26 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87hbs7bvbw.fsf@mail.jurta.org> Reply-To: Kevin Rodgers , 5118@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1260005273 25957 80.91.229.12 (5 Dec 2009 09:27:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 09:27:53 +0000 (UTC) To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 05 10:27:47 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-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 1NGqvW-0005B7-KL for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:27:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59722 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NGqvV-0007Qi-TN for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:27:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NGqvQ-0007Oe-0I for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:27:36 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NGqvL-0007Np-8Q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:27:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43821 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NGqvL-0007Nj-2m for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:27:31 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:41035) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NGqvH-0006eh-Ks for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:27:28 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id nB59ROTK029013; Sat, 5 Dec 2009 01:27:25 -0800 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id nB59A56O027696; Sat, 5 Dec 2009 01:10:05 -0800 Resent-Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 01:10:05 -0800 X-Loop: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Kevin Rodgers Original-Sender: news Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs , owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com 2Resent-Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:10:05 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: followup 5118 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs,doc-view X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B.126000360426182 (code B ref -1); Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:10:05 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 5 Dec 2009 09:00:04 +0000 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org (lists.gnu.org [199.232.76.165]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id nB5900E9026118 for ; Sat, 5 Dec 2009 01:00:03 -0800 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NGqUi-0000xZ-DL for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:00:00 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NGqUb-0000rd-7e for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:59:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46603 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NGqUb-0000ra-3B for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:59:53 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:59891) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NGqUa-0004xp-Mx for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:59:52 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NGqUW-0005UF-IK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:59:48 +0100 Original-Received: from c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([71.237.24.138]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:59:48 +0100 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:59:48 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) In-Reply-To: <87hbs7bvbw.fsf@mail.jurta.org> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Resent-Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:27:35 -0500 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:33240 Archived-At: 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