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From: "Björn Bidar" <bjorn.bidar@thaodan.de>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: View docx/doc documents from Gnus in Docview
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2023 22:50:11 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87il8hajv0.fsf@thaodan.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o7iango3.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (Eric Abrahamsen's message of "Sun, 10 Sep 2023 09:20:44 -0700")

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> Björn Bidar <bjorn.bidar@thaodan.de> writes:
>
>> Hey,
>>
>> How can I make that I can view doc/docx document from the article
>> buffer
>> in Docview?
>> Opening them from dired already works,
>
> This is probably what you want. Use the prefix argument to select a
> part.
>
> K e runs the command gnus-article-view-part-externally (found in
> gnus-summary-mode-map), which is an autoloaded interactive
> byte-compiled Lisp function in ‘gnus-art.el’.
>
> It is bound to K e.
>
> (gnus-article-view-part-externally N)
>
> View MIME part N externally, which is the numerical prefix.

I tried to select that option from the graphic menu when I select the
docx attachment by clicking on it with mouse.
However the only option it offers is to safe the attachment.
What does externally mean, externally of Gnus or externally of Emacs?


  reply	other threads:[~2023-09-10 19:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-08 16:18 Björn Bidar
2023-09-10 16:20 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2023-09-10 19:50   ` Björn Bidar [this message]
2023-09-10 21:43     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2023-09-11  2:53       ` Andrew Cohen
2023-09-11 17:01         ` Eric Abrahamsen
2023-09-12  0:37           ` Andrew Cohen
2023-09-12 17:59             ` Eric Abrahamsen
2023-09-11 19:01         ` Björn Bidar

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