== Starting native applications ==
Another example of using an intermediary script for an application with a
command line syntax which can't be directly defined in mimeview.
We use a script to preprocess and adapt the options before calling the
actual command.
Details about configuring how the native application or script are called
are given with the
link:http://www.recoll.org/usermanual/usermanual.html#RCL.INSTALL.CONFIG.MIMEVIEW[description
of the mimeview configuration file].
*qpdfview* (link:http://launchpad.net/qpdfview[web site]) is a very
lightweight tabbed PDF viewer with great search performance and result
highlighting.
It does support parsing the search term and page number from the command
line with the following syntax:
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qpdfview --unique "%f"#%p --search "%s"
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However, qpdfview will not launch if either %p or %s are empty in the
command above. To accommodate for that, Recoll user Florian has written a
small wrapper shell script:
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#!/bin/bash
qpdfviewpath=qpdfview
if [ -z $2 ]
then
page=""
else
page="#"$2""
fi
if [ -z $3 ]
then
search=""
else
search="--search "$3""
fi
$qpdfviewpath --unique "$1"$page $search >&0 2>&0 &
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The corresponding handler line for Recoll would be (depending on how you
name the script and where you store it):
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qpdfviewwrapper %f %p %s
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