dired-mode: Open remote PDF file over ssh and view locally with
external program.
reddit / emacs

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lawlist · 2022-08-24 00:18

I haven't been able to find the following functionality in `dired-
mode` with my Google-fu, but I suspect that someone has already
written up a solution.  When a PDF file exists on a remote server that
is being accessed over an SSH connection and the file is displayed in
a `dired-mode` buffer, I'd like to view the PDF locally in an external
reader such as `xpdf` or `acroread` on linux (Ubuntu).  It wouldn't be
that difficult to write up a solution (e.g., download to a temporary
directory, perhaps using something like `url-retrieve-synchronously`),
but if a solution already exists, I'd like to start with that.  Any
ideas how that would be done would be greatly appreciated.

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ispinfx · 2022-08-24 00:33

Idea: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/42252/run-local-
command-on-remote-file-with-tramp

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lawlist · 2022-08-24 00:44

Yes, that worked right out of box -- thank you very much!