Open Source Projects Europe

Recoll 1.22.4 + Xapian 1.4.3 in MX Linux.

My guess would be that there were no terms in your search, e.g. ext:pdf

Using qpdfview --search "%f" does not work either (qpdfview says it does not want an empty search term). --search "%f " works, but then you are searching for instances of your term with a space after, which is not what you want.

There is no provision currently for conditional parts in the configuration viewer command line, and it would complicated to implement.

I think that the easiest approach if you can't live with this would be an intermediary shell script which would test its arguments and only use --search if there is actually one search argument

myshellscript "%s" "%f#%p"

Then in the script:

if test -n $1; then opt="--search $1"; else opt="";fi
qpdfview $opt $2

or a variation thereon

Thanks for your answer and the script. I'm using regular search terms. But Recoll doesn't hand them over to qpdfview.

What recoll version are you using, on what platform?
What query mode ?

Recoll 1.22.4 + Xapian 1.4.3
MX Linux 18 - Kernel 4.19.0-1-amd64 x86_64
Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)

The problem occurs in all query modes.

Full content of mimeview:

# The system-wide configuration files for recoll are located in:
#   /usr/share/recoll/examples
# The default configuration files are commented, you should take a look
# at them for an explanation of what can be set (you could also take a look
# at the manual instead).
# Values set in this file will override the system-wide values for the file
# with the same name in the central directory. The syntax for setting
# values is identical.

xallexcepts = application/pdf application/postscript application/x-dvi \
application/x-fsdirectory|parentopen inode/directory|parentopen \
text/html|chm text/html|epub text/html|gnuinfo
[view]
application/pdf = qpdfview --search %s %f#%p

I've just updated to Recoll 1.23.7 + Xapian 1.4.3. The problem doesn't occur anymore. Thanks for your help!

Great ! I had forgotten about this bug in 1.22.

Also: you probably need to reset your index. Have a look at this:
https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/BUGS.html#b_1_23_5

• status: open --> closed
• milestone: -->