From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using pdf-tools Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 17:51:00 +0200 Message-ID: <87k0n190rf.fsf@telefonica.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="25269"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:bphhbz03OgSMu93SUyHikykq3FU= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 10 17:53:04 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lrMzN-0006PT-N1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 10 Jun 2021 17:53:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50734 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lrMzM-0004Zf-OU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 10 Jun 2021 11:53:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60822) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lrMxY-0002Bl-TQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jun 2021 11:51:08 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:50720) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lrMxX-0007le-7v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jun 2021 11:51:08 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lrMxV-0003Xp-BP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jun 2021 17:51:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:130713 Archived-At: Julius Hamilton writes: > Hey, > > I'm a beginner to emacs and I'm trying to get going with the library > pdf-tools. Which method did you use for installing pdf-tools? > The documentation says I should add the line "(pdf-tools-install)" > "somewhere in my .emacs.el file". > > I noticed that in my home directory I have a .emacs.d file. Some > documentation said people usually have a .emacs file but sometimes also a . > emacs.el file or a .emacs.d/init.el file, as an init file. > > I was wondering, what are the reasons for having these different kinds of > init files? That's probably just an historical artifact, resulting from the shifting preferences and traditions within the Emacs community. Please note that if you have an ~/.emacs or ~/.emacs.el file it wont load ~/.emacs.d/init.el > I added "(pdf-tools-install)" at the end of my init.el file, and restarted > emacs. I tried a command from the pdf-tools docs, "M-x pdf-tools-help RET", > which the system did not recognize. > > I was wondering if anyone could give me a hand and explain to me why this > is and what a good next step would be. Should I set up my emacs with a > emacs.el init file instead? If you have .emacs.d/init.el and none of the other optios (.emacs, .emacs.el) it should work, provided that pdf-tools is properly installed.