Re: Free PDF viewer that can search for text across line-breaks?
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 03:00:03PM -0700, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
> on 14:46 Sat 09 Apr, Joel Roth (joelz@pobox.com) wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 05:22:04PM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> > > On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 4:20 AM, Arthur Marsh
> > > <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net>wrote:
> > >
> > > > Is there any Free PDF viewer in Debian that works outside of GNOME/KDE that
> > > > can both search for text across line breaks and allows copying of text from
> > > > the PDF document to the clip-board?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Install pdfgrep and xclip. You can then do something like:
> > >
> > > pdfgrep 'foo.*bar' baz.pdf | xclip
> > >
> > > Works for me.
> >
> > xclip! how is it I didn't know about you for so long?
>
> Two shell scripts which have found their way to /usr/local/bin:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> xp # xclip paste
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> #!/bin/sh
> # X clipboard paste
> export PATH=/usr/bin:/bin
> xclip -o
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> xc # xclip copy
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> #!/bin/sh
> # Xclip copy
> export PATH=/usr/bin:/bin
> xclip
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Solves the vi/vim "how do I read in text" problem as well:
>
> :r !xp
That's quite a bit better than what I was doing before:
:r!cat <mouse-middle-click> <CR> ^D
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