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#20891
emacs: Back off if .doc is not an Office document
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Reported by: era+emacs <at> iki.fi
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 11:20:03 UTC
Severity: minor
Tags: fixed
Found in version 24.4+1-4ubuntu5
Fixed in version 27.1
Done: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #23 received at 20891 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
On Thu, Nov 7, 2019, at 06:45, Richard Stallman wrote:
> > So, as long as we lack editing capabilities, showing an image of the
> > document in Emacs is actually pretty useful.
> How would Emacs do that?
The Emacs-side entry point seems to be doc-view-mode-maybe, which is hooked in auto-mode-alist for a number of file name extensions.
As described in https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DocViewMode it relies on external utilities to provide the actual image.
I was unable to quickly repro in a fresh Debian or Ubuntu image, but that might be because I didn't have the external utility installed.
Tangentially, googling for doc-view-mode-maybe suggests that lots of people are annoyed by it and want to turn it off, probably often for related but distinct reasons.
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If this were a real .signature, it would suck less. Well, maybe not.
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