Re: doc-view and mailcap

[Tassilo Horn]

Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Juri,

>> PDF, PostScript and DVI files are usually A4 (or letter) paper sized
>> documents.  Displaying them in the article buffer doesn't seem useful
>> to me.  My personal preference would be a new Emacs frame.
>
> Large images get attached to the messages already, and Gnus displays
> them inline just fine.

But the difference is that the images are just there and can be
displayed immediately whereas pdfs and such have to be converted first.
I don't think it would be good to unconditionally start a conversion run
if a document is attached with disposition type `inline'.  And if the
user has to type a key first to start the conversion and inline the
images I cannot see a big benefit.

> I think when the disposition type is `inline' we should try to display
> it inline in the same article buffer if possible.

I think it wouldn't be hard to add a function to doc-view that inserts
the images into the current buffer, but we'd loose (or have to
re-implement) all those nice features like searching or image-scrolling.

Bye,
Tassilo