[GTALUG] odd evince command behaviour
D. Hugh Redelmeier
hugh at mimosa.com
Thu Dec 24 11:22:44 EST 2020
I have a PDF filename named "RE: something.pdf"
This fails:
evince "RE: someting.pdf"
with the error messages on stdout:
** (evince:397922): WARNING **: 11:14:02.077: The specified location is not supported
** (evince:397922): WARNING **: 11:14:02.080: set_filenames: The specified location is not supported
The message in the evince window is more interesting:
Unable to open document “file:///tmp/evince-397922/document.SR35V0-
something”.
The specified location is not supported.
Clearly evince is trying to treat the prefix "RE:" as something magic.
Just what, I don't know. But it sure isn't in the evince man page.
This command works fine:
evince ./"RE: someting.pdf"
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