A problem with pdf-tools

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A problem with pdf-tools

wojnicki opened this issue 4 years ago · 5 comments

wojnicki commented 4 years ago

Wrong contents copied.

To reproduce:

pdf-tools are used to display a pdf document.
select a region
copy the region with M-w
yank (C-y) in another buffer: result is "%PDF-1.5" instead of the region selected before.

Answer 1 · 2020-09-15T12:29:33.000Z

pdf-tools version: 20200512

Answer 2 · 2020-09-15T21:31:09.000Z

Sorry, I don't know how to use pdf-tools to reproduce this: it just looks like a PDF support library, not a viewer.

What's the major mode? Perhaps it makes sense to avoid enabling whole-line-or-region-local-mode there.

Answer 3 · 2020-09-16T07:22:18.000Z

pdf-tools is a replacement of DocView for PDF files. It enables viewing, searching, copying, annotations etc. The major mode, upon viewing a PDF, is PDFView. Yes, it makes perfect sense not to enable whole-line-or-region-local-mode there, whis is a valid workaround.

Answer 4 · 2020-09-16T22:41:39.000Z

Thanks. Is the major mode symbol pdf-view-mode? You can check with M-: major-mode. I can easily add a list of modes in which whole-line-or-region-global-mode should not enable whole-line-or-region-local-mode, and add that mode to the list.

Answer 5 · 2020-09-17T10:25:11.000Z

Yes it is pdf-view-mode.

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On 9/17/20 12:41 AM, Steve Purcell wrote: Thanks. Is the major mode symbol |pdf-view-mode|? You can check with |M-: major-mode|. I can easily add a list of modes in which |whole-line-or-region-global-mode| should /not/ enable |whole-line-or-region-local-mode|, and add that mode to the list. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#14 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ADU4ZVK2WWGNF6DQAOV2LD3SGE5LDANCNFSM4RNBX7QQ>.

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