Re: doc-view.el: about cursor and filename display

[David Kastrup]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     I'd guess in such cases, given that Emacs is fundamentally a
>     text-editor, it seems best to do something like Emacs already does for
>     .xpm files:  display as text (in postscript-mode or whatever) with a
>     message saying "Type C-c C-c to view the printed form of this document."
>
> Thus, for PS, we would show the text initially; for PDF and DVI, we
> would show the rendered form initially.  That seems ok.

I am actually looking at PDF source quite often.  It is, after all,
more or less a restricted form of PostScript as long as one does not
use compression (but compression can be used in PostScript, too).

-- 
David Kastrup