Emacs opens PDF in default PDF reader instead of pdf-tools

Emacs opens PDF in default PDF reader instead of pdf-tools

[Jean-Christophe Helary via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor]

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?

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Jean-Christophe Helary
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Re: Emacs opens PDF in default PDF reader instead of pdf-tools

[Stephen Berman]

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

Re: Emacs opens PDF in default PDF reader instead of pdf-tools

[Stephen Berman]

On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 17:10:54 +0100 Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> wrote:

> 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).

Oops, I missed the first line of your post.  Sorry.

> Steve Berman

Re: Emacs opens PDF in default PDF reader instead of pdf-tools

[Michael Heerdegen via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor]

Jean-Christophe Helary via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

> 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 were you doing to install/ uninstall?


Michael.