[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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