On Thu 28 Feb 2019 at 10:42:03 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 02/28/2019 09:51 AM, David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 28 Feb 2019 at 09:20:04 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > > > On 02/28/2019 06:47 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > On 02/27/2019 03:26 PM, David Wright wrote: > > > > > On Wed 27 Feb 2019 at 11:56:57 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Is there a Debian package to read a PDF using a visible means of > > > > > > highlighting the target text and capable of starting the search on > > > > > > any > > > > > > page of the document? > > > > > > > > > > Xpdf does that. Black on white. It starts each search from the > > > > > previous one. It restarts a search at the top of the page you're on > > > > > when you do things like select text, change the zoom factor, and > > > > > so on. > > > > > Although the man page states "You can also start xpdf without opening > > > any files", there is not a *convenient* way to select a file to open > > > [requires opening a sequence of multiple dialogs]. > > > > Right click and Open lies under the cursor. Standard dialogue box. > > I'm not sure where your "multiple dialogs" come from; perhaps your > > desktop is doing something. > > I have gotten use to clicking on a directory to go down to next level. > But xpdf expects you to click "Open" button to go down a level > followed by choosing "Open" again in the dialogue box.
Doesn't your mouse do DoubleClick? > You can skip that by entering the complete path in the "Selection" box. > It fundamentally has a command line orientation with GUI as an extra. Eh? You can bind keystrokes to a large number of commands (there are defaults configured). Similarly it supports myriad-buttoned mice which you can configure. The wheel scrolls both in pages and in dialogue boxes. And there's the aforementioned Right click menu. > I used to be command-line oriented (started with CPM-80) but spent to[o] > many decades with Windows(tm). I thought the above was fundamentally how 'doze worked. Cheers, David.
