From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: disabling doc-view mode Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:05:01 -0500 Organization: UseNetServer.com Message-ID: 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 1259955718 27700 80.91.229.12 (4 Dec 2009 19:41:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 19:41:58 +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 20:41:51 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 1NGe2E-0001wn-9k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:41:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51847 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NGe2E-0004OS-01 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:41:46 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad.highwinds-media.com!TEKSAVVY.COM-Free-a2kHrUvQQWlmc!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:G9sp/N8ou5EkP2qANcoJLoxxR6U= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenetserver.com Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Trace: 739dc4b195d5de00038e103013 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:175328 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:70400 Archived-At: >>> 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? > For PostScript, I would expect ps-mode, of course: > | (ps-mode) > | Major mode for editing PostScript with GNU Emacs. I don't know about you, but that's what I get by default (and I can then view it with doc-view via C-c C-c). > Unfortunately, there are no specialized modes for editing PDF and DVI > files, so I would expect that a default mode for viewing binary files > is chosen. You could use find-file-literally for that. Or of course (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.pdf\\'" . fundamental-mode)) (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.dvi\\'" . fundamental-mode)) -- Stefan