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mudraw doesn't exist any more

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From: Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza <at> udel.edu>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Nicolas Petton <nicolas <at> petton.fr>, Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>, 24042 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24042: mudraw doesn't exist any more
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 21:33:04 -0400

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>> Apparently mudraw has been superseded by "mutool draw".  I'm using the
>>> patch below to accommodate this new situation, but it's not
>>> quite satisfactory.
>> Why is it not satisfactory?  What choice do we have if `mudraw' has been
>> replaced?
>
> It's the string-match that's not very satisfactory.  If the "mutool"
> happens to have a name that doesn't match the regexp, or if some other
> tool (pdfdraw or mudraw) happens to match the regexp things will go wrong.

There should likely be a doc-view-pdfdraw-options.  I remember poking
net-utils.el recently which has an approach like this.  May not solve
the problem, but at least it is exposed to the user.

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