bug#4377: marked as done (allow one to still choose xpdf instead of doc-view)

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has caused the Emacs bug report #4377,
regarding allow one to still choose xpdf instead of doc-view
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> Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:28:42 +0800
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> My god, that's tons and tons of lisp to add to one's .emacs file, just
> to say "I wish to have emacs still call xpdf when encountering a .pdf
> file, like back before they introduced doc-view".
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> I'm filing an emacs-pretest-bug so they will make it easier to allow one
> to choose if one wants doc-view, or stick with xpdf.
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> >>>>> "KY" == Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:
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> >>>>> jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
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> >> The only way to get xpdf called on them is via dired-do-shell-command,
> >> which knows about xpdf.
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> KY> Is what you want the one like this?
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> KY> (defadvice dired-view-file (around use-xpdf activate)
> KY>   "Use xpdf to view a pdf file."
> KY>   (unless (let ((file (dired-get-file-for-visit)))
> KY>         (and (not (file-directory-p file))
> KY>              (let ((case-fold-search t))
> KY>                (string-match "\\.pdf\\'" file))
> KY>              (prog1
> KY>                  t
> KY>                (call-process "xpdf" nil nil nil file))))
> KY>     ad-do-it))
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> KY> The `v' key in the dired buffer uses xpdf to display a file iff
> KY> its extension is ".pdf".
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> KY> Otherwise,
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> KY> (autoload 'mailcap-parse-mailcaps "mailcap" nil t)
> KY> (autoload 'mm-mailcap-command "mm-decode")
> KY> (defadvice dired-view-file (around use-mailcap-mime-data activate)
> KY>   "Use an external viewer to view a file according to `mailcap-mime-data'."
> KY>   (unless (let ((file (dired-get-file-for-visit))
> KY>             extension type command)
> KY>         (and (not (file-directory-p file))
> KY>              (progn
> KY>                (mailcap-parse-mailcaps)
> KY>                (setq extension (file-name-extension file)))
> KY>              (setq type (mailcap-extension-to-mime extension))
> KY>              (setq command (mailcap-mime-info type))
> KY>              (setq command (mm-mailcap-command command file nil))
> KY>              (prog1
> KY>                  t
> KY>                (shell-command command))))
> KY>     ad-do-it))
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> KY> There will be other ELisp packages that use external viewers.
> KY> `gnus-dired-find-file-mailcap' is it, though it may not be your
> KY> taste.
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> Sat, 12 Sep 2009 22:06:11 -0400
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> > My god, that's tons and tons of lisp to add to one's .emacs file, just
> > to say "I wish to have emacs still call xpdf when encountering a .pdf
> > file, like back before they introduced doc-view".
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> One line solution:
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> (setq auto-mode-alist (rassq-delete-all 'doc-view-mode auto-mode-alist))
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