Re: .doc files in emacs

[Tim X]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Subject: Re: .doc files in emacs
>
>> From: Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null>
>> Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 12:02:28 +1100
>> 
>> Let me know i you want a copy. However, note that it is pretty much my
>> first elisp utility I've let out into the wild - I think the elisp is
>> OK, but not great and probably could be greatly improved by a more
>> experienced elisper. 
>
> Well, one advice I can give, based on brief reading of the code, is to
> keep in txutils-convert-alist only the program names, without the
> leading directories (e.g., "pdftotext" instead of "/usr/bin/pdftotext"),
> and use executable-find to find the program.
>
> This way, you will DTRT by default for more users on more platforms,
> and the only users that will need to customize txutils-convert-alist
> are those who install the utilities outside of their PATH.
>

Thanks Eli. I wasn't aware of executable-find. I will check it out.

Tim

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