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Unable to open remote pdf directly with eww

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 43318 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#43318: Unable to open remote pdf directly with eww
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2020 14:31:52 +0000

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

> Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se> writes:
>
>> 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...
>
> I've now fixed this on the trunk to start the external viewer the
> traditional way.  It starts it synchronously, though, which isn't ideal,
> but having the deletion triggered from a process filter, for instance,
> will leave the temporary file there upon crashes...

I've now tested it and I can confirm that your fix works here.

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