[Merged] Help Needed! Please test feature/emacs-26.3

[vedang]

Hello All,

I've made some big compatibility changes on the branch feature/emacs26.3. While I've tested these locally and am reasonably confident about them, I'd appreciate the wider community giving it a spin as well.

The major breaking changes are:

1. Support for Emacs < 26.3 has been dropped. The code-cleanup has touched a lot of files, so testing on Emacs 26.3+ and on various operating systems will be great.
2. pdf-view-use-scaling is now true by default! For anyone who was not setting this to true in their configuration, the package should continue to work well.

I will merge this branch into master on Monday. Until then, I'm hoping some folks can test it out. To test this branch:

1. Delete your MELPA installation of pdf-tools.
2. Clone this repo to your system.
3. Checkout the feature/emacs-26.3 branch git checkout feature/emacs-26.3 inside the pdf-tools folder.
4. Run make inside the pdf-tools folder. If the make command produced the ELP file pdf-tools-1.0.0.tar, compilation has succeeded! This package contains all the necessary files for Emacs and may be installed using package.el (next step)
5. Inside Emacs: M-x package-install-file RET pdf-tools-1.0.0.tar RET

Open and test PDF files :)

[vedang]

Closing this discussion, I've merged the changes back into master.