GNU bug report logs - #43318
Unable to open remote pdf directly with eww

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 19:41:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: 43318 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#43318: Unable to open remote pdf directly with eww
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 12:39:59 -0700

Steps to reproduce:

0. emacs -Q
1. M-x eww RET https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/pdf/emacs.pdf RET

Result: My external pdf reader (titled "Document Viewer", not sure what
it is, maybe some Gnome thing) opens with the message "Unable to open
file '/home/skangas/wip/emacs/-'".  It seems like it tried to open the
file "-" in the directory from which I run Emacs.

It would be useful if this would open the pdf doc-view-mode, or if the
pdf was downloaded to /tmp and opened using "Document Viewer" from there
or something.
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