{"id":9972,"date":"2018-09-24T14:44:07","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T12:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.b.shuttle.de\/hayek\/hayek\/jochen\/wp\/blog-en\/?p=9972"},"modified":"2026-04-16T12:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T10:00:21","slug":"doc-view-display-error-selecting-deleted-buffer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/2018\/09\/24\/doc-view-display-error-selecting-deleted-buffer\/","title":{"rendered":"error when viewing PDFs in emacs resp. after deleting associated buffers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/emacs\/comments\/4029g0\/error_when_viewing_pdfs\/\">https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/emacs\/comments\/4029g0\/error_when_viewing_pdfs\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">the annoying, recurring error message:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Error running timer `doc-view-display&#8217;: (error &#8220;Selecting deleted buffer&#8221;)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">what to do:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><strong>M-x<\/strong> cancel-timer<br><strong>Cancel timers of function:<\/strong> doc-view-display<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Update 2019-11-05 (GNU Emacs 26.3 on Mojave):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><strong>M-x<\/strong> cancel-function-timers<br><strong>Cancel timers of function:<\/strong> doc-view-display<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the annoying, recurring error message: Error running timer `doc-view-display&#8217;: (error &#8220;Selecting deleted buffer&#8221;) what to do: M-x cancel-timerCancel timers of function: doc-view-display Update 2019-11-05 (GNU Emacs 26.3 on Mojave): M-x cancel-function-timersCancel timers of function: doc-view-display<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[120,423],"tags":[1566],"class_list":["post-9972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emacs","category-pdf","tag-docview"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paO0kP-2AQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9972"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13688,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9972\/revisions\/13688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}