Subject: bug#6446: 23.2; doc-view-mode and C-x C-v

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2019 15:19:10 +0200

Reiner Steib <[email-masked]> writes:

> Recipe starting from `emacs -Q':
>
> $ rm -fr c:/Users/*/AppData/Local/Temp/docview*
>
> (adjust according to your value of `doc-view-cache-directory')
>
> $ export emacsdir=p:/path/to/GNU/emacs-23.2
>
> (adjust accordingly)
>
> $ cd $emacsdir;
> $ ./bin/emacs.exe -Q -f toggle-debug-on-error
> $emacsdir/etc/refcards/refcard.pdf
>
> Emacs (doc-view-mode) prompts:
>
> | Unable to render file.  View extracted text instead? (y or n) y
>
> Hit `y'.  The extracted text is shown.  Fine.

I'm not sure what the bug reported here is.  Is it that doc-view won't
display PDFs if doc-view-cache-directory is deleted?  If so, I'm unable
to reproduce this bug in Emacs 27.

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