GNU bug report logs - #4896
DocView: Continuous mode

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Message #57 received at 4896 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Tassilo Horn <tassilo <at> member.fsf.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>, 4896 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#4896: DocView: Continuous mode
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:03:38 +0100

Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org> writes:

Hi Juri,

>> There's some "minor continuous mode", i.e. when you scroll with SPC
>> and DEL, you will finally switch pages and start at the beginning/end
>> respectively.  But still, there's only one image in the buffer.
>
> Multi-page scolling doesn't always work even with SPC and DEL.
> Visiting a PDF file puts it to read-only mode, that puts it to
> view-mode (when `view-read-only' is t).

Hm, at least, that's not the default value.

> And view-mode overrides DocView's SPC and DEL bindings with its own
> SPC and DEL bindings (`View-scroll-page-forward' and
> `View-scroll-page-backward') that are incompatible with image
> scrolling.

Maybe we should switch off view-mode in doc-view-mode explicitly?  IMO
doc-view-mode is THE view-mode for PDF/DVI/PS files...

Bye,
Tassilo

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