Re: Cannot start w3m-el from within a document, except newsfeeds

[Hermann]

On 13.02.2009 at 12:25:05 Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> wrote:
[...]
>> In fact you are right; I use emacs-w3m, which indeed is called w3m-el on
>> my distro (GRML).
>> So I commented out the entries refering to w3 in my .gnus.
> [...]
>> I inserted only one line in my .gnus:
>
>> (setq mm-text-html-renderer 'w3m)
>
>> which should be sufficient, (at least for basic needs) if I've understood 
>> the manuual.
>> But I don't see a different result: Links in news feeds were shown, in
>> all other cases I get that "Mozilla" message.
>
> Hm, could you try the RET key, or the `C-u RET' key on those links
> in the article buffer?
>
I did both commands, no difference.
One observation: In the news feeds I see the word "link" instead of the
URL. Is this important for the explanation of this?
[...]
>> My version is 1.4.4-8
>> Is this an old one?
>> Aptitude offers as an alternative w3m-el-snapshot; is this a rather new
>> one?
>
> I don't know, sorry (I'm using Fedora).  But such a basic feature
> should work even in old ones, I think.
>
Could this be caused by settings of my system? If so, where to look.
Note: I don't use a GUI. 
Hermann