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Re: doc-view.el now allows searching
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Bill Clementson |
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Re: doc-view.el now allows searching |
Date: |
Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:44:11 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (darwin) |
Hi Tassilo,
Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:
> Bill Clementson <billclem@gmail.com> writes:
>> Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:
>>> Hey, it's a whole bunch of fun. I've just finished implementing a
>>> new feature: Now you can REGEXP-SEARCH in documents. Please git-pull
>>> and give it a try. The commentary explains how to use it.
>>
>> Hey, what a coincidence - I was just about to write a note saying
>> something along the lines of "now that the speed issue has been
>> addressed, the biggest remaining shortfall is..." and you went and
>> addressed it before I finished writing the post! ;-)
>
> Something in my head whispered: "Bill wants to search documents...
> search documents... uooouuuhhh!"
Good to hear that my telepathic, DWIW utility is working properly. It
also is slated to appear in CVS Emacs shortly. ;-)
>> It would be nice if there was some way of highlighting the matching
>> terms in the document;
>
> Haha, this one was nice! :-)
I thought you would find that amusing. ;-)
>> however, I can't see how you would be able to do that. Alternatively,
>> as each matching page is displayed with "C-S-n", perhaps you could
>> display at the bottom of the page the matches on that page with a
>> certain amount of context - (e.g. - 10 words on either side of each
>> match).
>
> I'll address this later today.
Great - I see you've already done it and I have a few comments in a
separate reply.
>> That would let the reader find the matches more easily on that page.
>
> Yes, when I tested the searching functionality I always thought: "Why's
> that page a match, I cannot find that damn "foo" anywhere!" (Till some
> minutes later I found that little "football" somewhere.)
I have the same problem - if I don't have the phrase pointed out to
me, I can spend ages trying to find it on the page.
- Bill
- Re: doc-view.el --- View PDF/PostStript/DVI files in Emacs, (continued)
- Re: doc-view.el --- View PDF/PostStript/DVI files in Emacs, Bill Clementson, 2007/08/29
- Re: doc-view.el --- View PDF/PostStript/DVI files in Emacs, Joost Kremers, 2007/08/29
- Re: doc-view.el --- View PDF/PostStript/DVI files in Emacs, Tassilo Horn, 2007/08/30
- Re: doc-view.el --- View PDF/PostStript/DVI files in Emacs, Joost Kremers, 2007/08/30
- doc-view.el now allows searching (was: doc-view.el --- View PDF/PostStript/DVI files in Emacs), Tassilo Horn, 2007/08/30
- Re: doc-view.el now allows searching (was: doc-view.el --- View PDF/PostStript/DVI files in Emacs), Bill Clementson, 2007/08/30
- doc-view.el blog posting, Bill Clementson, 2007/08/30
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- Re: doc-view.el blog posting, Tassilo Horn, 2007/08/31
- Re: doc-view.el now allows searching (was: doc-view.el --- View PDF/PostStript/DVI files in Emacs), Xavier Maillard, 2007/08/30
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- Re: doc-view.el now allows searching, Tassilo Horn, 2007/08/31
- Re: doc-view.el now allows searching,
Bill Clementson <=
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- Re: doc-view.el now allows searching, Tassilo Horn, 2007/08/31
- Re: doc-view.el now allows searching (was: doc-view.el --- View PDF/PostStript/DVI files in Emacs), Joost Kremers, 2007/08/31
- Re: doc-view.el now allows searching, Tassilo Horn, 2007/08/31
- Re: doc-view.el now allows searching, Joost Kremers, 2007/08/31
- Re: doc-view.el now allows searching, Joost Kremers, 2007/08/31
- Re: doc-view.el now allows searching, Tassilo Horn, 2007/08/31
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- Re: doc-view.el now allows searching, Tassilo Horn, 2007/08/31
- Re: doc-view.el now allows searching, Bill Clementson, 2007/08/31
- Re: doc-view.el now allows searching, Peter Dyballa, 2007/08/31
- Re: doc-view.el now allows searching, Bill Clementson, 2007/08/31