Re: pdf links do not open as expected

[Samuel Wales <samologist@xxxxxxxxx>]

Does anybody else experience this?

On 2009-07-18, Samuel Wales <samologist@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> When I visit a page that has a link that is a .pdf, and I
> pres RET on that link, w3m tries to save the contents to a
> file.  What I expected instead was the opportunity to run an
> external browser or a pdf reader.
>
> the "M" command does the same thing.  What I expected here
> was an external browser.
>
> I couldn't find a place in the code where you can set this.
> Perhaps there is a variable.
>
> I have browse-url-browser-function set to this.  I don't
> know if it is good that w3m ignores it or not.
>
>         '(
>           ("\\.pdf\$" . browse-url-default-macosx-browser)
>           ("." . w3m-browse-url)))
>
> There is another bug that is probably unrelated.  When w3m
> tries to save the file, it interacts strangely with ido,
> causing it to say "no match".  This is not as important.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Myalgic encephalomyelitis makes you die decades early (Jason
> et al. 2006) and suffer severely.  Conflicts of interest are
> destroying research.  Silence = death.  Again.
> http://www.meactionuk.org.uk/What_Is_ME_What_Is_CFS.htm
>


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Myalgic encephalomyelitis makes you die decades early (Jason
et al. 2006) and suffer severely.  Conflicts of interest are
destroying research.  Silence = death.
http://www.meactionuk.org.uk/What_Is_ME_What_Is_CFS.htm