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DocView: copy/search text

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From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#5118: DocView: copy/search text
Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:59:26 -0700

Juri Linkov wrote:
> Package: emacs,doc-view
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Please add two features that would be easy to implement:
> 
> 1. Copying the text of the current page to the kill ring.

I don't know anything about DocView, but shouldn't that be possible
in any major mode via C-x C-p (mark-page) then M-w (kill-ring-save)?

> PDF viewers allow selecting a rectangular area to copy it to the
> clipboard.  If this is not possible in DocView, then at least copying
> the text of the whole page would be a satisfactory compensation.
> Info and Dired bind similar commands to `w'.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA

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