johnsu01: Reading Word documents in Emacs

johnsu01 (

johnsu01) wrote,
@ 2007-06-30 16:37:00

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Reading Word documents in Emacs

How did I not know about no-word.el until now?

I added to my .emacs:

;;;_ , Word documents

(when (locate-library "no-word")
  (require 'no-word)
  (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.doc\\'" . no-word)))

Now any .doc file I visit in Emacs is run through antiword, so I can read it as plain text.

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	eclair 2007-07-01 07:43 am UTC (link)
	I've been using it for quite a while now :) It's very nifty! :D (Reply to this)

	tsk tsk offby1.myopenid.com 2007-07-01 02:40 pm UTC (link)
	;; less cruft! (with-library "no-word" (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist (cons (rx ".doc" eos) 'no-word))) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: tsk tsk johnsu01 2007-07-01 03:15 pm UTC (link)
	Yes, I should use a macro, like your `with-library` (you know you made that up, right? :) ). I also should know by now that `require` has a NOERROR argument, and I should be using `autoload` anyway. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	Re: tsk tsk (Anonymous) 2007-07-14 07:06 pm UTC (link)
	All the more reason to step down, really. mattl (Reply to this) (Parent)