Hello, [I do not know whether this answer reached the Debian developers, therefore I forward it now.]
It seems the bug is caused by an interaction between texdoc and xdg-open. Could not texdoc be configured so that it called xdg-open *without* unzipping the file? At least in my system, xdg-open can handle gzipped PDF files already on its own. If it worked, then this would be the simplest and most natural solution to the problem. - Markus Redeker ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 14:48:09 +0200 From: Tassilo Horn <t...@gnu.org> To: Markus Redeker <c...@ibp.de> Cc: bug-auctex <bug-auc...@gnu.org> Subject: Re: [Markus Redeker <cep-82uicwzi...@public.gmane.org>] Bug#715187: auctex: TeX-doc function cannot handle compressed files Markus Redeker <c...@ibp.de> writes: Hi Markus, > I do not know whether that helps you, but on my system there are _two_ > files 'scrguide.pdf', I've found out what I have to do, and now I know what causes the problem. It's not AUCTeX's fault. Try "texdoc pgfmanual" in a terminal, it will fail the very same way. Texdoc can be configured to unzip zipped files automatically. It then simply unzips them to /tmp, then calls the viewer, and when the viewer returns, it deletes the unzipped version from /tmp again. Now the problem is that texdoc seems to use `xdg-open' for opening files. On the one hand, that's a good thing cause xdg-open will fire up whatever program you've associated with the given file type in KDE or GNOME or whatever. But on the other hand, xdg-open simply spawns the appropriate program and then returns immediately. Because it returns, texdoc deletes the temporary unzipped file, cause it thinks you've quit your viewer. But in fact, the file is deleted before evince started. Long story short: Explicitly assign evince as pdf viewer in some config file returned by `texdoc --files'. viewer_pdf = evince Bye, Tassilo -- Markus Redeker Bristol, UK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
