* traceback on doc-view-search in cvs
@ 2008-10-17 22:22 Neal Becker
2008-10-18 19:17 ` Glenn Morris
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Neal Becker @ 2008-10-17 22:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-devel
Recent emacs cvs.
Hitting C-s when viewing pdf gives:
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
start-process("pdf->txt" " *doc-view conversion output*" nil "-raw" "/home/nbecker/numpybook.pdf" "/tmp/docview500/numpybook.pdf-637180cd704dc8be4036c09412501397/doc.txt")
apply(start-process "pdf->txt" " *doc-view conversion output*" nil ("-raw" "/home/nbecker/numpybook.pdf" "/tmp/docview500/numpybook.pdf-637180cd704dc8be4036c09412501397/doc.txt"))
doc-view-start-process("pdf->txt" nil ("-raw" "/home/nbecker/numpybook.pdf" "/tmp/docview500/numpybook.pdf-637180cd704dc8be4036c09412501397/doc.txt") #[nil "��!�" [doc-view-search nil] 2])
doc-view-pdf->txt("/home/nbecker/numpybook.pdf" "/tmp/docview500/numpybook.pdf-637180cd704dc8be4036c09412501397/doc.txt" #[nil "��!�" [doc-view-search nil] 2])
doc-view-doc->txt("/tmp/docview500/numpybook.pdf-637180cd704dc8be4036c09412501397/doc.txt" #[nil "��!�" [doc-view-search nil] 2])
doc-view-search(nil)
call-interactively(doc-view-search nil nil)
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* Re: traceback on doc-view-search in cvs
2008-10-17 22:22 traceback on doc-view-search in cvs Neal Becker
@ 2008-10-18 19:17 ` Glenn Morris
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From: Glenn Morris @ 2008-10-18 19:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Neal Becker; +Cc: emacs-devel
Neal Becker wrote:
> Recent emacs cvs.
> Hitting C-s when viewing pdf gives:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
> start-process("pdf->txt" " *doc-view conversion output*" nil "-raw" "/home/nbecker/numpybook.pdf" "/tmp/docview500/numpybook.pdf-637180cd704dc8be4036c09412501397/doc.txt")
It seems that the external program "pdftotext" is not in your PATH.
Admittedly, there should be a more friendly indication of this.
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