From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: Jean-Christophe Helary via Users list for the GNU Emacs text
editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Cc: Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@traductaire-libre.org>
Subject: Re: Emacs opens PDF in default PDF reader instead of pdf-tools
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 17:10:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878qse1e9d.fsf@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AD830796-72C0-4064-98C2-28D98B9A5F25@traductaire-libre.org> (Jean-Christophe Helary via Users list for the's message of "Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:27:43 +0000")
On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:27:43 +0000 Jean-Christophe Helary via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:
> I’m working on macOS where I set my default PDF reader to Skim.
>
> Until I installed pdf-tools, Emacs was opening PDFs in doc-view.
> After installing pdf-tools, Emacs sends them to Skim.
>
> What should I check to fix that?
When you installed pdf-tools that should have added the entry
'("\\.[pP][dD][fF]\\'" . pdf-view-mode) to auto-mode-alist, which should
make Emacs use it. But a web search told me that "Skim is a PDF reader
and note-taker for OS X", so it looks like somehow your system (I assume
macOS) is overriding or countermanding the use of auto-mode-alist by
Emacs for PDFs; maybe you can find a system setting to fix that (I know
next to nothing about macOS, so I can't offer more specific help).
Steve Berman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-12-17 16:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-12-17 10:27 Emacs opens PDF in default PDF reader instead of pdf-tools Jean-Christophe Helary via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-12-17 16:10 ` Stephen Berman [this message]
2024-12-17 16:14 ` Stephen Berman
2024-12-17 17:40 ` Michael Heerdegen via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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