bug#16541: 23.3; doc-view-open-text should grab place in current doc

[Tassilo Horn]

Suhail Shergill <suhailshergill@gmail.com> writes:

Hi!

>> Currently doc-view has pretty much no idea about the format in use,
>> so it doesn't know how to go from one page to another.
>
> except results shown by doc-view-search and doc-view-search-next-match
> are associated with the correct page number as seen in docview mode
> (even though it seems the search is conducted on the extracted
> text). so, clearly that information is available to doc-view in some
> sense.

Suhail is correct.  We could easily make C-c C-t switch to the current
page using this patch:

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=== modified file 'lisp/doc-view.el'
--- lisp/doc-view.el    2014-01-01 07:43:34 +0000
+++ lisp/doc-view.el    2014-01-27 10:22:11 +0000
@@ -1400,6 +1400,7 @@
 (defun doc-view-open-text ()
   "Open a buffer with the current doc's contents as text."
   (interactive)
+  (let ((page (doc-view-current-page)))
   (if doc-view--current-converter-processes
       (message "DocView: please wait till conversion finished.")
     (let ((txt (expand-file-name "doc.txt" (doc-view--current-cache-dir))))
@@ -1409,8 +1410,11 @@
                (dir (file-name-directory buffer-file-name)))
            (with-current-buffer (find-file txt)
              (rename-buffer name)
-             (setq default-directory dir)))
-       (doc-view-doc->txt txt 'doc-view-open-text)))))
+               (setq default-directory dir)
+               ;; Jump to the current page
+               (goto-char (point-min))
+               (search-forward "
                                 " nil t (1- page))))
+         (doc-view-doc->txt txt 'doc-view-open-text))))))
 
 ;;;;; Toggle between editing and viewing
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Should I install it?

Bye,
Tassilo