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bug#43318: Unable to open remote pdf directly with eww
From: |
Stefan Kangas |
Subject: |
bug#43318: Unable to open remote pdf directly with eww |
Date: |
Thu, 10 Sep 2020 14:25:55 -0700 |
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
>> In that case, it should try using a different pdf viewer, but I'm not
>> quite sure how that's handled. mailcap should probably be consulted?
>
> Oh, that is what it's doing:
>
> (defun mailcap-view-mime (type)
> "View the data in the current buffer that has MIME type TYPE.
> `mailcap--computed-mime-data' determines the method to use."
> (let ((method (mailcap-mime-info type)))
> (if (stringp method)
> (shell-command-on-region (point-min) (point-max)
> ;; Use stdin as the "%s".
> (format method "-")
> (current-buffer)
> t)
> (funcall method))))
>
> eww puts the pdf data in a buffer and calls (for instance) "xpdf -" on
> the data.
>
> But this'll fail for most pdf viewers -- most of them don't read from
> stdin, so this seems like a pretty gross hack...
Sounds like a good analysis.
In my case I'm using evince, because at some point I put this in my
"~/.mailcap":
application/pdf; evince %s
And I guess evince doesn't read from stdin, as you say...