Bill Clementson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi Bill,
> Only the Macports install worked on my Powerbook G4 (and that took > ages to build all the dependencies because Macports builds versions of > the dependencies that work with the package you're installing even if > you have non-Macports versions of the same progs installed and in your > path). Tassilo, please forgive me for all the names I called you this > afternoon for using git! ;-) Haha, forgiven. > But, back to doc-view.el. Did I mention that it is way cool? :-) Thanks! > There are a few ways that it could probably be made better though: > > 1. It is slow: It would probably be better to provide an async mode > option. In other words, instead of waiting for the convert process to > complete, let the user view the pages that have been generated and > periodically, have doc-view automatically update the > doc-view-current-files variable with the updated list of pages. I don't think that would help much. The generation of the pictures is about the last 5-10% of the transformation. > 2. Cancel key: There should be a key binding to cancel the convert > process and (optionally) view what has been generated so far. I've done that yesterday. Get the current version. > 3. Page count: It would be useful to have a running update of how many > pages have been converted so far in the minibuffer (or maybe the mode > line so that the minibuffer isn't being continually updated and can be > used for other commands). See my answer to point 1. > 4. Batch mode: It would be nice to have an option to kick off a batch > background process to do the conversion. For big documents, it isn't > really practical to wait till it's been converted. Well, why do you think you have to wait? Go on with your work and eventually the *DocView* buffer pops up. (That's much better in the current version now.) > 5. Dired key: It would be nice to have a defcustom value that would > specify a dired map key that would call doc-view on a file (with a new > doc-view function that doesn't prompt for the file name). This would > make it easier to "browse" pdf files in dired. Good idea. I'll add that. Do you have a good suggestion what key could be used and is free? > Did I mention that doc-view is way cool? :-) And think of how cool it will be in 5 or ten years when we all have 64-core 50 GHz computers with 512 GB RAM!!! Bye, Tassilo -- Scotty in Star Trek often says "Ye cannae change the laws of physics." This is untrue. Chuck Norris can change the laws of physics. With his fists. _______________________________________________ gnu-emacs-sources mailing list gnu-emacs-sources@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-emacs-sources
