Re: w3m on NT Emacs

[Gustaf Erikson]

Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I forward your message posted to the gnu.emacs.help newsgroup
> (or possibly help-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org?) to the emacs-w3m
> community.

Thanks, but I figured it out. It was a case of windows permissions.

The cygwin path "/usr/local/bin" (where w3m.exe lives) maps to
"c:\cygwin\usr\local\bin", but "/usr/bin" is actually
"c:\cygwin\bin". After I added the latter to `exec-path' I got w3m
working. Maybe it calls some ncurses stuff that lives in /usr/bin.

Anyway, I'm sorted now. I'll see if I can try to track down exactly
where this stuff is set; right now I have the Windows PATH variable
set too.

/g.

>
>>>>>> In <mailman.816.1093945568.1998.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>>>>>>  Gustaf Erikson wrote:
>
>> I'm using NT Emacs ("GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600) of
>> 2003-03-28 on buffy") on Windows XP. I would like to use w3m to format
>> the inevitable HTML mail from my employer. This has worked before, but
>> since getting a new computer it doesn't work.
>
>> I had my old .emacs and .gnus files, but after messing around with
>> them I removed all references to w3m vars and functions and started
>> over.
>
>> I d/l and installed emacs-w3m v. 1.4.3. I couldn't compile the latest
>> version of w3m under cygwin, but I had an older version (v. 0.4.1)
>> available, and this works flawlessly under cygwin bash. Also, if I
>> start emacs from bash inside the console, M-x w3m works fine and I can
>> browse.
>
> I'm not familiar with cygwin, so I won't be able to help you
> about w3m unfortunately.
>
>> But when I try to do the same thing in "normal" windows mode, I just
>> get a blank buffer. I see the w3m menubar and the tabs, but no
>> output. When entering remote URL, ir just says
>
>> "Request sent, waiting for response...done".
>
>> Any ideas of what might cause this? Is it a question of w3m's output
>> being redirected somewhere else?
>
> Does emacs-w3m work with local html contents?  To check it,
> type `M-x w3m-history RET', visit the `about:' page or visit a
> url which begins with `file:'.
>
> We got a message about a similar problem from a Gentoo Linux
> user last week and it has been solved.  Then I added the
> following part to the FAQ list.
>
>    * Q. Why I cannot visit web pages using emacs-w3m?  There is no
>      problem when visiting local html files or using w3m barefoot,
>      though.
>
>      What is called the asynch patch(1) is applied to the w3m command
>      which some Linux distribution (e.g. Gentoo Linux) contains.  It is
>      useful when using w3m barefoot, however it might make emacs-w3m
>      hang.  If it is suspected, we recommend you reinstall the w3m
>      command from the original source.
>
>    (1) w3m on cygwin (http://www.page.sannet.ne.jp/knabe/w3m/w3m.html)
>
> Should I add cygwin to the section?  ;-)

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