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bug#5118: DocView: copy/search text
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From: |
Juri Linkov |
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Subject: |
bug#5118: DocView: copy/search text |
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Date: |
Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:47:50 +0200 |
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User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>> Please add two features that would be easy to implement:
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>> 1. Copying the text of the current page to the kill ring.
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> 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)?
`C-x C-p' and `M-w' will copy binary data, whereas `pdftotext' converts
it to plain text in a hidden buffer that can be displayed with `C-c C-t'
where you can do `C-x C-p' and `M-w'. But the problem is that it's
difficult to find the current page in the text representation to be able
to copy it.
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Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/