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bug#43318: Unable to open remote pdf directly with eww
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#43318: Unable to open remote pdf directly with eww |
Date: |
Thu, 10 Sep 2020 22:51:04 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> 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...
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