From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/86133 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nikolaus Rath Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: How to change default PDF viewer? Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 19:08:53 -0700 Message-ID: <87r3mq4x8q.fsf@vostro.rath.org> References: <871ter9vlt.fsf@thinkpad.rath.org> <87614343eh.fsf@thinkpad.rath.org> <87wpwjrurc.fsf@bell.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1440554993 4662 80.91.229.3 (26 Aug 2015 02:09:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 02:09:53 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M34367@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Aug 26 04:09:41 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUQ9j-0000Xf-4x for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 04:09:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUQ9g-0007hC-Hy; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 21:09:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUQ9d-0007gU-NE for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 21:09:33 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUQ9c-0002jv-JG for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 21:09:33 -0500 Original-Received: from out3-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUQ97-0003CY-9V for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 04:09:09 +0200 Original-Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 719352067F for ; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 22:08:59 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 25 Aug 2015 22:08:59 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-sasl-enc :x-sasl-enc; s=smtpout; bh=Es5AeMgT8lcrDsyNAIko6DTNT+g=; b=edfz0 3mWa4PApfF+X8gbCLCWxV181xEZGGLE+eiovmh1dFMy9YvcE6nCCmltES7vtAdV6 FK3VnD8SS6uaM/XeOAow/7EglmWkOQ94D896gaP+ytRj1oDpW4qBR5okOUEtAKrO Dt5y5hrSQyNhLHlbg2Kz5v8EcLsOhWewur1g4E= X-Sasl-enc: vpk0YactuDE5+jJ3LdkqxvowuIgaHmNG4wLPq7G0z9+1 1440554939 Original-Received: from ebox.rath.org (ebox.rath.org [45.79.69.51]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 042A5680114 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 22:08:59 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from vostro.rath.org (vostro [192.168.12.4]) by ebox.rath.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4915D57358 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 02:08:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: by vostro.rath.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D0028F00A9A; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 19:08:57 -0700 (PDT) Mail-Copies-To: never Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <87wpwjrurc.fsf@bell.net> (Charles Philip Chan's message of "Tue, 25 Aug 2015 16:14:00 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.1 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:86133 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Aug 25 2015, Charles Philip Chan wrote: > On 25 Aug 2015, Nikolaus@rath.org wrote: > On Aug 25 2015, Erik Colson wrote: >> Nikolaus Rath writes: >> >>>> Can someone tell me how to change the default PDF viewer from Emacs' n= ew >>> internal document viewer to an external program? >> >>> which OS are you on ? > >> Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) > > I had the same issue. The problem these days is that Emacs favours a > Lisp based reader (doc-view, in this case) to whatever is define in > mailcap. I googled the problem and this is the solution I found that > works. For example, I have define Okular as the pdf reader in mailcap: > > #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp > ;;Remove doc-view so pdf will open with Okular > (setcdr > (assoc "application" mailcap-mime-data) > (remove '("pdf" > (viewer . doc-view-mode) > (type . "application/pdf") > (test eq window-system 'x)) > (cdr (assoc "application" mailcap-mime-data)))) > #+END_SRC > > Just cut and paste what is between BEGIN_SRC and END_SRC and put it in > your init file. Works perfectly! Thanks a bunch! Best, =2DNikolaus =2D-=20 GPG encrypted emails preferred. 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