triska commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#189
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Published: September 3, 2026 10:37
Emacs sometimes hangs when displaying PDF When I do:
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triska commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#189
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/189#issuecomment-22259764
Published: September 3, 2026 10:37
Emacs sometimes hangs when displaying PDF When I do:
tusharhero commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#189
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/189#issuecomment-22257196
Published: September 3, 2026 09:25
Emacs sometimes hangs when displaying PDF Strange, check if load-path variable contains the reader directory. (Did you remove the use-package declaration?)
triska commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#189
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/189#issuecomment-22256959
Published: September 3, 2026 09:17
Emacs sometimes hangs when displaying PDF Indeed: I do not have reader in this list!
tusharhero commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#189
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/189#issuecomment-22256719
Published: September 3, 2026 09:06
Emacs sometimes hangs when displaying PDF @triska wrote in #189 (comment):
tusharhero commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#189
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/189#issuecomment-22256632
Published: September 3, 2026 09:04
Emacs sometimes hangs when displaying PDF
triska commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#189
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/189#issuecomment-22256416
Published: September 3, 2026 08:56
Emacs sometimes hangs when displaying PDF If the instructions that are outlined in README unexpectedly yield outdated installations, please consider updating the installation instructions accordingly, so that others do not run into this issue. I manually…
divyaranjan commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#189
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/189#issuecomment-22253995
Published: September 3, 2026 07:43
Emacs sometimes hangs when displaying PDF @triska Yeah this is a package-vc bug. The commit you're at is 1 year old! package-vc goes to the latest tagged release instead of master. Do a git pull and then make clean all. And see if the same error…
triska commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#189
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/189#issuecomment-22253152
Published: September 3, 2026 07:16
Emacs sometimes hangs when displaying PDF I followed the documentation to install Emacs Reader, by adding the following to my ~/.emacs:
tusharhero commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#189
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/189#issuecomment-22250209
Published: September 3, 2026 05:09
Emacs sometimes hangs when displaying PDF This is master branch of emacs-reader right?
triska closed issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#188
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/188#issuecomment-22240804
Published: September 2, 2026 21:43
Error (use-package): Cannot load reader
triska commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#188
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/188#issuecomment-22240798
Published: September 2, 2026 21:43
Error (use-package): Cannot load reader Regarding the hang I mentioned above, which I coincidentally encountered the first time I opened a PDF: I found that I can consistently trigger it by iteratively opening a PDF in new Emacs instances , I filed #189…
divyaranjan commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#188
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/188#issuecomment-22240558
Published: September 2, 2026 21:32
Error (use-package): Cannot load reader @triska wrote in #188 (comment):
triska opened issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#189
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/189
Published: September 2, 2026 21:30
189#Emacs sometimes hangs when displaying PDF#
divyaranjan commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#188
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/188#issuecomment-22240402
Published: September 2, 2026 21:25
Error (use-package): Cannot load reader @triska wrote in #188 (comment):
triska commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#188
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/188#issuecomment-22240174
Published: September 2, 2026 21:19
Error (use-package): Cannot load reader @divyaranjan: Maybe Makefile could be changed to ask mupdf itself about its version, and take that if it works? (Not all versions support the -v switch, but the more recent one I mentioned above does.)
triska commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#188
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/188#issuecomment-22239964
Published: September 2, 2026 21:15
Error (use-package): Cannot load reader Regarding the library path, I have:
divyaranjan commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#188
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/188#issuecomment-22239937
Published: September 2, 2026 21:14
Error (use-package): Cannot load reader @triska wrote in #188 (comment):
triska commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#188
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/188#issuecomment-22239754
Published: September 2, 2026 21:07
Error (use-package): Cannot load reader Good news: The PDF I opened is now displayed as intended!
divyaranjan commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#188
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/188#issuecomment-22239703
Published: September 2, 2026 21:05
Error (use-package): Cannot load reader Looks like it does, it's libmupdf-dev. But now I'm more confused, how did Reader compile if you didn't have a libmupdf.so...does it exist somewhere else?
divyaranjan commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#188
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/188#issuecomment-22239595
Published: September 2, 2026 21:03
Error (use-package): Cannot load reader @triska That is...weird...because usually you'd see a libmupdf.so in here if your package also installed the shared library. Does Debian have a different package for the shared library?
triska commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#188
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/188#issuecomment-22239460
Published: September 2, 2026 21:00
Error (use-package): Cannot load reader Here is the entirety of my /usr/local/lib/ folder, there is almost nothing in it because this is a rather fresh Debian Trixie install, in fact I am surprised there is anything here now:
divyaranjan commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#188
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/188#issuecomment-22239433
Published: September 2, 2026 20:59
Error (use-package): Cannot load reader @triska wrote in #188 (comment):
divyaranjan commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#188
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/188#issuecomment-22239376
Published: September 2, 2026 20:57
Error (use-package): Cannot load reader Also look into:
divyaranjan commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#188
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/188#issuecomment-22239280
Published: September 2, 2026 20:53
Error (use-package): Cannot load reader @triska wrote in #188 (comment):
triska commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#188
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/188#issuecomment-22239190
Published: September 2, 2026 20:50
Error (use-package): Cannot load reader Meanwhile a bit more information I gathered:
divyaranjan commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#188
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/188#issuecomment-22238614
Published: September 2, 2026 20:31
Error (use-package): Cannot load reader If that yields nothing, it might be that the mupdf.pc fie isn't getting recognized properly, try to follow these steps. It's unfortunate that we have only one external dependency but distributing that is quite the…
triska commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#188
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/188#issuecomment-22238299
Published: September 2, 2026 20:26
Error (use-package): Cannot load reader Thank you, here is the result:
divyaranjan commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#188
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/188#issuecomment-22238059
Published: September 2, 2026 20:19
Error (use-package): Cannot load reader @triska wrote in #188 (comment):
triska commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#188
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/188#issuecomment-22237108
Published: September 2, 2026 19:59
Error (use-package): Cannot load reader And mupdf itself reports:
triska commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#188
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/188#issuecomment-22236967
Published: September 2, 2026 19:58
Error (use-package): Cannot load reader With dpkg, I get:
triska commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#188
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/188#issuecomment-22236616
Published: September 2, 2026 19:48
Error (use-package): Cannot load reader @divyaranjan: Could you please post the command I should issue, and from where, to check this?
divyaranjan commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#188
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/188#issuecomment-22233730
Published: September 2, 2026 18:21
Error (use-package): Cannot load reader @triska Did you properly uninstall the last one? Check with pkg-config which one it picks.
triska commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#188
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/188#issuecomment-22227565
Published: September 2, 2026 15:57
Error (use-package): Cannot load reader I have now switched to Debian sid, and installed the latest version of mupdf. I now get:
triska commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#188
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/188#issuecomment-22227271
Published: September 2, 2026 15:46
Error (use-package): Cannot load reader Awesome, thank you a lot! I don't have .emacs.d/elpa/emacs-reader, but I do have .emacs.d/elpa/reader, is this intended?
tusharhero commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#188
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/188#issuecomment-22225798
Published: September 2, 2026 15:42
Error (use-package): Cannot load reader Hello @triska , this warning suggests reader didn't get compiled. You should try manually compiling it first, go to .emacs.d/elpa/emacs-reader and run make there.
triska commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#188
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/188#issuecomment-22222357
Published: September 2, 2026 15:12
Error (use-package): Cannot load reader Thank you a lot for looking into this! Yes, I have the function reader-mode:
divyaranjan commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#188
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/188#issuecomment-22209832
Published: September 2, 2026 10:18
Error (use-package): Cannot load reader Double check if you have the correct version of mupdf. We need at least 1.26.2, Debian Trixie seems to have upto 1.25.0. You might have to build mupdf locally...
divyaranjan commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#188
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/188#issuecomment-22209055
Published: September 2, 2026 10:03
Error (use-package): Cannot load reader Hello @triska ! Do you see reader-mode in M-x? Sometimes the warnings are a bit confusing? (and a red herring)
triska opened issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#188
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/188
Published: September 2, 2026 09:34
188#Error (use-package): Cannot load reader#
tsdh commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#180
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/180#issuecomment-22094968
Published: September 1, 2026 05:39
Current git master signals an error on startup: `Lisp error: (file-missing "Cannot open load file" "No such file or directory" "reader-saveplace")` Ok, this init.el reproduces fine for me using emacs -Q -l init.el using the current git master branches of…
tusharhero commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#180
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/180#issuecomment-22057168
Published: August 31, 2026 13:07
Current git master signals an error on startup: `Lisp error: (file-missing "Cannot open load file" "No such file or directory" "reader-saveplace")` I tried running this in a temp directory set as --init-directory. I didn't get the error.
tusharhero pushed to master at MonadicSheep/emacs-reader
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Published: August 31, 2026 12:23
a0e3615adbf520a5743bbbfd7da6d2bb8478b30b fix: reader.el: guard ‘reader-dyn--window-close’ calls consistently
tusharhero closed issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#186
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/186#issuecomment-22051648
Published: August 31, 2026 12:23
Delay when switching to reader buffer via tabs, sometimes crashes Emacs
tsdh commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#180
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/180#issuecomment-22051600
Published: August 31, 2026 12:22
Current git master signals an error on startup: `Lisp error: (file-missing "Cannot open load file" "No such file or directory" "reader-saveplace")` @tusharhero I think you should get this error with this init file.
tusharhero commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#180
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/180#issuecomment-22034050
Published: August 31, 2026 05:00
Current git master signals an error on startup: `Lisp error: (file-missing "Cannot open load file" "No such file or directory" "reader-saveplace")` @tsdh, I am not able to reproduce this issue. Can you provide a way to reliably reproduce this?
tusharhero closed issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#179
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/179#issuecomment-22016024
Published: August 30, 2026 18:03
Finding an empty PDF file with reader crashes Emacs
tusharhero commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#179
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/179#issuecomment-22016018
Published: August 30, 2026 18:03
Finding an empty PDF file with reader crashes Emacs Emacs no longer crashes, (fixed in f068ed3ef5).
tusharhero closed issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#187
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/187#issuecomment-22015859
Published: August 30, 2026 17:58
reader crashes the current emacs session if unsupported file is opened
tusharhero pushed to master at MonadicSheep/emacs-reader
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Published: August 30, 2026 17:58
f068ed3ef5827b9abefd4ebe35174f2ee85bd6a6 fix: mupdf-helpers.c: set dropped state fields to NULL to avoid double free
tusharhero pushed to master at MonadicSheep/emacs-reader
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Published: August 30, 2026 12:46
9ca75f8a3bb8ddfc2eeed5beba2fc819950c0140 refactor: render-core.c: simplify cleanup in ‘emacs_load_doc’
Icy-Thought commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#140
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/140#issuecomment-21966458
Published: August 29, 2026 17:51
Non utf-8 documents segfaults on scroll Since I cannot find the original document, I have tested with other, similar, documents and it appears to have been solved.
Icy-Thought commented on pull request MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#182
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/pulls/182#issuecomment-21298862
Published: August 19, 2026 22:17
WIP: Switch from PPM to Canvas for displaying Just a heads up, when reader-dark-mode is enabled, highlighting text with mouse turns the page into a non dark page, but when reverting buffer it returns back to "normal".
DavisClarke commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#186
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/186#issuecomment-20829158
Published: August 10, 2026 20:20
Delay when switching to reader buffer via tabs, sometimes crashes Emacs Sorry this was sitting in my drafts! I do not use fractional scaling. I ran up my old i3 setup with the lucid build it crashed likewise. I tested a bunch of pdfs and I revert my…
amrit3128 opened issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#187
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/187
Published: August 9, 2026 17:36
187#reader crashes the current emacs session if unsupported file is opened#
tusharhero commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#178
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/178#issuecomment-20675834
Published: August 7, 2026 13:07
Compile TeX will crash reader closing as it is a duplicate of #62.
tusharhero closed issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#178
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/178#issuecomment-20675840
Published: August 7, 2026 13:07
Compile TeX will crash reader
tusharhero commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#185
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/185#issuecomment-20675426
Published: August 7, 2026 12:59
PDF locked to the top of the window This is probably possible. Though I haven't looked into how it would be done.
tusharhero commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#186
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/186#issuecomment-20674919
Published: August 7, 2026 12:52
Delay when switching to reader buffer via tabs, sometimes crashes Emacs Hello @DavisClarke, do you use fractional scaling? PGTK has been unstable for me as well, you should test if it is same on Xwayland+GTK too.
DavisClarke opened issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#186
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/186
Published: August 7, 2026 06:23
186#Delay when switching to reader buffer via tabs, sometimes crashes Emacs#
efog4 opened issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#185
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/185
Published: July 31, 2026 01:13
185#PDF locked to the top of the window#
codemplasi commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#170
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/170#issuecomment-20029630
Published: July 25, 2026 06:24
Spamming `g` leads to a memory leak in the heap and other undefined behavior. I think so.
divyaranjan commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#170
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/170#issuecomment-19928338
Published: July 23, 2026 10:03
Spamming `g` leads to a memory leak in the heap and other undefined behavior. @codemplasi This is in master too?
codemplasi commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#170
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/170#issuecomment-19917208
Published: July 23, 2026 03:20
Spamming `g` leads to a memory leak in the heap and other undefined behavior. has the same issue in windows 11.
tusharhero pushed to port-to-canvas at MonadicSheep/emacs-reader
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Published: July 23, 2026 01:43
divyaranjan pushed to port-to-canvas at MonadicSheep/emacs-reader
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Published: July 19, 2026 12:47
3f2146714706beb9debf31b60b17a45e06e8c623 Revert "fix: add conditional check if resized before refreshing"
divyaranjan pushed to port-to-canvas at MonadicSheep/emacs-reader
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/commit/5f9cdb7acb253d3b1f4e5e5e7a53c951fd878643
Published: July 19, 2026 12:16
5f9cdb7acb253d3b1f4e5e5e7a53c951fd878643 fix: add conditional check if resized before refreshing
divyaranjan commented on pull request MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#182
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/pulls/182#issuecomment-19655470
Published: July 19, 2026 10:11
WIP: Switch from PPM to Canvas for displaying After the new updates to the API, the highlighting is significantly smoother even at highly zoomed pages.
divyaranjan pushed to port-to-canvas at MonadicSheep/emacs-reader
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/commit/d68a2c77059b90f941ac0dc4489e9db8aff7ac1b
Published: July 19, 2026 09:54
d68a2c77059b90f941ac0dc4489e9db8aff7ac1b refactor: switch to new canvas api
iagogv opened issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#184
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/184
Published: July 16, 2026 18:27
184#Installation on Windows does not work#
vatsal-singhal commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#183
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/183#issuecomment-18797507
Published: July 8, 2026 11:25
Cannot scroll to bottom of document while zoomed in I tried diagnosing the issue. It seems that there is some disconnect between the region that reader.el is thinking it is displaying and the region that it is actually displaying.
divyaranjan commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#183
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/183#issuecomment-18783278
Published: July 8, 2026 08:02
Cannot scroll to bottom of document while zoomed in Seems to work for me in both cases.
divyaranjan pushed to port-to-canvas at MonadicSheep/emacs-reader
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Published: July 7, 2026 12:33
78442b03e25614a69719701801e26acd6baa3560 chore: remove redisplay calls
vatsal-singhal commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#183
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/183#issuecomment-18689675
Published: July 6, 2026 18:14
Cannot scroll to bottom of document while zoomed in Nope, I get an"End of Page" before I get to actually see the end bit of the page. It is the exact spot where C-n gets stuck
divyaranjan commented on pull request MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#182
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/pulls/182#issuecomment-18686942
Published: July 6, 2026 17:26
WIP: Switch from PPM to Canvas for displaying It will eventually fix #103 as well.
divyaranjan commented on issue MonadicSheep/emacs-reader#183
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/issues/183#issuecomment-18686645
Published: July 6, 2026 17:21
Cannot scroll to bottom of document while zoomed in Hello @vatsal-singhal