* How to open pdf file links with evince under linux?..
@ 2010-03-23 9:17 Leo Alekseyev
2010-03-23 20:44 ` Jan Böcker
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From: Leo Alekseyev @ 2010-03-23 9:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
When using org mode under windows, links to local PDF files bring up
Acrobat. However, under linux, these links just spawn a new empty
buffer in emacs in fundamental mode. How can I make PDF links bring
up evince?...
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* Re: How to open pdf file links with evince under linux?..
2010-03-23 9:17 How to open pdf file links with evince under linux? Leo Alekseyev
@ 2010-03-23 20:44 ` Jan Böcker
2010-03-29 15:20 ` Daniel Martins
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From: Jan Böcker @ 2010-03-23 20:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Leo Alekseyev; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
On 23.03.2010 10:17, Leo Alekseyev wrote:
> When using org mode under windows, links to local PDF files bring up
> Acrobat. However, under linux, these links just spawn a new empty
> buffer in emacs in fundamental mode. How can I make PDF links bring
> up evince?...
>
As far as I know, Org uses the system defaults when it does not know how
to open a file, and when the system does not know, Org opens the file in
emacs. Under linux, that system default is the mailcap database, but I
have no idea how to configure that. (It doesn't even appear to exist on
my system.)
But we can tell Org directly what to do with PDF files: take a look at
the variable org-file-apps (M-x customize-variable org-file-apps).
Each entry in this list consists of (selector, action) pairs where the
action tells Org how to open a file, and the selector (in most cases a
regular expression matched against the file name) specifies what kind of
files to open in this way.
Add the following entry:
Extension: \.pdf\'
Command: evince %s
Links to PDF files should now open in evince.
If you pull the current git version of Org, you could add a second entry:
Extension: \.pdf::\([0-9]+\)\'
Command: evince %s -p %1
This would allow you to link to a specific page of a PDF like this:
[[file:/path/to/document.pdf::21]]
(Shameless plug for a patch of mine that just got accepted.)
HTH, Jan
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* Re: How to open pdf file links with evince under linux?..
2010-03-23 20:44 ` Jan Böcker
@ 2010-03-29 15:20 ` Daniel Martins
2010-03-29 17:31 ` Matt Lundin
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From: Daniel Martins @ 2010-03-29 15:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jan Böcker; +Cc: emacs-orgmode, Leo Alekseyev
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well,
my values are
org-file-apps is a variable defined in `org.el'.
Its value is
((auto-mode . emacs)
("\\.x?html?\\'" . default))
which does not help very much since i think is scary to change the auto-mode
in emacs
I have the same annoying problem reported by Jan
2010/3/23 Jan Böcker <jan.boecker@jboecker.de>
> On 23.03.2010 10:17, Leo Alekseyev wrote:
> > When using org mode under windows, links to local PDF files bring up
> > Acrobat. However, under linux, these links just spawn a new empty
> > buffer in emacs in fundamental mode. How can I make PDF links bring
> > up evince?...
> >
>
> As far as I know, Org uses the system defaults when it does not know how
> to open a file, and when the system does not know, Org opens the file in
> emacs. Under linux, that system default is the mailcap database, but I
> have no idea how to configure that. (It doesn't even appear to exist on
> my system.)
>
> But we can tell Org directly what to do with PDF files: take a look at
> the variable org-file-apps (M-x customize-variable org-file-apps).
>
> Each entry in this list consists of (selector, action) pairs where the
> action tells Org how to open a file, and the selector (in most cases a
> regular expression matched against the file name) specifies what kind of
> files to open in this way.
>
> Add the following entry:
>
> Extension: \.pdf\'
> Command: evince %s
>
> Links to PDF files should now open in evince.
>
>
> If you pull the current git version of Org, you could add a second entry:
>
> Extension: \.pdf::\([0-9]+\)\'
> Command: evince %s -p %1
>
> This would allow you to link to a specific page of a PDF like this:
> [[file:/path/to/document.pdf::21]]
> (Shameless plug for a patch of mine that just got accepted.)
>
>
> HTH, Jan
>
>
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^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread* Re: How to open pdf file links with evince under linux?..
2010-03-29 15:20 ` Daniel Martins
@ 2010-03-29 17:31 ` Matt Lundin
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From: Matt Lundin @ 2010-03-29 17:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Daniel Martins; +Cc: emacs-orgmode, Leo Alekseyev
Hi Daniel,
Daniel Martins <danielemc@gmail.com> writes:
> my values are
>
> org-file-apps is a variable defined in `org.el'.
> Its value is
> ((auto-mode . emacs)
> ("\\.x?html?\\'" . default))
It looks as if you have changed this variable somehow. The default value
is:
((auto-mode . emacs)
("\\.mm\\'" . default)
("\\.x?html?\\'" . default)
("\\.pdf\\'" . default))
With the default settings you have two options:
1. Add the following line to ~/.mailcap (user only) or /etc/mailcap
(typical location of system-wide settings on Linux).
application/pdf; evince %s
2. Change the default settings per Jan's instructions:
> > 2010/3/23 Jan Böcker <jan.boecker@jboecker.de>
> >
> > But we can tell Org directly what to do with PDF files: take a
> > look at the variable org-file-apps (M-x customize-variable
> > org-file-apps).
> >
> > Each entry in this list consists of (selector, action) pairs where
> > the action tells Org how to open a file, and the selector (in most
> > cases a regular expression matched against the file name)
> > specifies what kind of files to open in this way.
> >
> > Add the following entry:
> >
> > Extension: \.pdf\'
> > Command: evince %s
> >
> > Links to PDF files should now open in evince.
> which does not help very much since i think is scary to change the
> auto-mode in emacs
Changing the pdf setting in this way does nothing to the
auto-mode-alist. The auto-mode cons cell simply instructs org-mode to
open any file matching a regexp in auto-mode-alist within emacs.
> I have the same annoying problem reported by Jan
Could you explain what problem you mean here? I believe it was Leo who
reported the problem, while Jan offered a solution.
Best,
Matt
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