I got it working thanks to your tutorial l inkdocviewtoworkonwindows . html . I pointed docview to the gs binaries . What I did differently from you is configure the docviewghostscriptprogram variable to point to the actual ghostscript exe , not just the bin directory , so do Mx customizegroup RET docview RET , look for the variable mentioned above and set it to CProgram Files x 86 gsgs 9 . 15 bingswin 32 c . exe or whatever use the console exe version , not the gui one . I think this is why it ' s not working for you . It helped reading the comments section in that tutorial . I also didn ' t use utuhdo guide to setup PDF tools within cygwin , since I want to run my standalone emacs instance . <| sep |> Big climate ? What does that even mean ? ? If you ' re going to make up fictional antagonists least make up something believable , that might conceivably exist , like Big Renewables or something . Do you have any evidence it ' s a hoax is a valid question . He ' s not asking you if it doesn ' t exist , he ' s asking you if it ' s intentionally made up to fool people . For example , do you have any evidence the moon landing is a hoax ? There ' s evidence it ' s not . Is there evidence it is ? The hoax is the spaghetti monster . If you have no evidence of the hoax , you have no hoax . We have evidence of climate change , and it ' s conclusive . If you want to attack climate change you ' ll need an alternative theory , backed by evidence , and the only alternatives are 1 climate change is not human related so we ' re just fucked any way 2 it ' s a hoax . The former has no positive evidence , but remains a possibility despite the nave fatalism , and the latter is a joke . The only functional conclusion is something ' s wrong , and we have the power to fix it . False equivalency is just that .