Re: use pdf-tools in Emacs.

[christian de larrinaga via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

thank you for this pointer. I had reconfigured emacs a while back and hadn't
got round to improving pdf performance to match the increasing number of
pdf docs I need to reference. I installed I thought pdf-tools
but it wasn't behaving. The :init did the trick

great list! Christian


Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:

> Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> (use-package pdf-tools
>>>   :ensure t
>>>   :init
>>>   (pdf-tools-install))
>>
>> I confirm that the above configuration can solve the problem.
>
> There you go.  So the issue was that you've put (pdf-tools-install) in
> the :config rather than the :init clause.  That would have called it
> when pdf-tools is loaded which never happened because pdf-tools-install
> arranges that it will be used when finding a pdf file.
>
> Bye,
> Tassilo


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