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

[Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>]

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