From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#43318: Unable to open remote pdf directly with eww Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 22:51:04 +0200 Message-ID: <878sdh5paf.fsf@gnus.org> References: <87d02t5ruq.fsf@gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="21933"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 43318@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 10 22:52:11 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-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 1kGTY9-0005Xf-C3 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2020 22:52:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60488 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kGTY8-0002vm-Ev for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2020 16:52:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40192) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kGTY2-0002vf-08 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2020 16:52:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:58065) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kGTY1-0008Pu-NB for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2020 16:52:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kGTY1-0001oO-JD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2020 16:52:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 20:52:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 43318 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 43318-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B43318.15997710786912 (code B ref 43318); Thu, 10 Sep 2020 20:52:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 43318) by debbugs.gnu.org; 10 Sep 2020 20:51:18 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41378 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kGTXK-0001nO-80 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2020 16:51:18 -0400 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([95.216.78.240]:42488) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kGTXI-0001nA-8b for 43318@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2020 16:51:16 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnus.org; s=20200322; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:Date: References:Subject:Cc:To:From:Sender:Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender: Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=ovlgz+uG7wy4NumX1S0MYl/hhtiHQLb2jaWg7BEyuVU=; b=gBpyu2ubEWmugHoF0nrIS79GuE YredY/n7gzSBjzz893dwswM7M7kR/U3YMFVxli5TpHH+V4HNovLF+GMprft2KzfRgMQtX5dKd10yk rp2ix8GPNI95qAHs1ubC3uVuTb9nRbFgkZvjA3dMqSAWToR7qqozxlcJVxf36aeb0luU=; Original-Received: from cm-84.212.202.86.getinternet.no ([84.212.202.86] helo=xo) by quimby with esmtpsa (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kGTX8-000260-HW; Thu, 10 Sep 2020 22:51:09 +0200 X-Now-Playing: Thomas Mery's _Les couleurs, les ombres_: "En silence" In-Reply-To: <87d02t5ruq.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Thu, 10 Sep 2020 21:55:41 +0200") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:187768 Archived-At: Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > In that case, it should try using a different pdf viewer, but I'm not > quite sure how that's handled. mailcap should probably be consulted? Oh, that is what it's doing: (defun mailcap-view-mime (type) "View the data in the current buffer that has MIME type TYPE. `mailcap--computed-mime-data' determines the method to use." (let ((method (mailcap-mime-info type))) (if (stringp method) (shell-command-on-region (point-min) (point-max) ;; Use stdin as the "%s". (format method "-") (current-buffer) t) (funcall method)))) eww puts the pdf data in a buffer and calls (for instance) "xpdf -" on the data. But this'll fail for most pdf viewers -- most of them don't read from stdin, so this seems like a pretty gross hack... -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no