From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Kangas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#43318: Unable to open remote pdf directly with eww Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 14:25:55 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87d02t5ruq.fsf@gnus.org> <878sdh5paf.fsf@gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22151"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 43318@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 10 23:27:10 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 1kGU61-0005f3-3h for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2020 23:27:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49554 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kGU60-0007ZU-6C for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2020 17:27:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47922) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kGU5u-0007ZK-MD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2020 17:27:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:58164) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kGU5u-0004go-Di for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2020 17:27:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kGU5u-00071p-Al for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2020 17:27:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Kangas Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 21:27:02 +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=B43318.159977316526943 (code B ref 43318); Thu, 10 Sep 2020 21:27:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 43318) by debbugs.gnu.org; 10 Sep 2020 21:26:05 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41477 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kGU4y-00070V-WD for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2020 17:26:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ej1-f53.google.com ([209.85.218.53]:43343) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kGU4w-000701-A7 for 43318@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2020 17:26:03 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-ej1-f53.google.com with SMTP id o8so10841596ejb.10 for <43318@debbugs.gnu.org>; Thu, 10 Sep 2020 14:26:02 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:from:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=3qVaFs5m6eHf2p1BBYV463DqIxNtzoAMb+Sm6C+RVGg=; b=t3Srr5/A1Yc05ieRfJd0zrNRY0BKX4hQPppksBOjx+A5Gp3Y1BF5K7Fn4tVrRyfXqy 8AEOXOtObOQbP5sTu2LG2PsAyw6rYDCHzjs0mSNKyQaMOY7cBUjn3z1X0OmSIr5XR500 yWfZmw/NQqr4ESJUJxVs3/p9YUxLJ///eOP2j/UIcR9ew8ckNqvCQ4oUhlMJ165ApO3P 6XTi7WBiplvSqRrqWY2PVUCBikapxHqqY9N+A4xrqgqTNVKrq9dM069gcxzmjl8OXjmN YikCfIpbhgMw8NOH8qrjYRSXjytn/obIDwHZvzcqIugQuLFKQmLjbQMmbfGwe4eQKlXD VaZA== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM532GhlciKpVJE9EwdtgSjyuIQGsZR0ltK6rGMRKGEc+LIdFdxdNd xP7KeoLlXuPH77UvNE6rPY9qGngvI5DnqNVZJWU= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJzjiPe+G88hd2x1Q4hPOYRFkPaAxB18HTpe+605tkJA9XNA2h60bGA1Pjj5dL8WOUz5BhDsrbu5UR3F1MXe20c= X-Received: by 2002:a17:906:bb0e:: with SMTP id jz14mr11400400ejb.525.1599773156543; Thu, 10 Sep 2020 14:25:56 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from 753933720722 named unknown by gmailapi.google.com with HTTPREST; Thu, 10 Sep 2020 14:25:55 -0700 In-Reply-To: <878sdh5paf.fsf@gnus.org> 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:187776 Archived-At: Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > 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... Sounds like a good analysis. In my case I'm using evince, because at some point I put this in my "~/.mailcap": application/pdf; evince %s And I guess evince doesn't read from stdin, as you say...