Re: emacs-w3m not displaying any pages -- SOLVED

[Gustaf Erikson]

Adding c:\cygwin\bin to the PATH envvar solved this problem.

/g.

Gustaf Erikson <gustafe+usenet@openbsd.agero.se> writes:

> I'm using NtEmacs on WinXP Pro. I've installed Cygwin and compiled
> w3m. I've added w3m-specific stuff (culled from the archives of this
> group). When I try to browse using "M-x w3m" I just get "Reading
> <site>..." and nothing ever gets displayed.
>
> Details:
>
> OS: WinXP pro (Swedish)
> Emacs: "GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600) of 2003-03-28 on buffy"
> w3m: w3m version w3m/0.4.1,
>      options lang=en,color,ansi-color,mouse,menu,cookie,ssl,
>      external-uri-loader,w3mmailer,nntp,gopher,alarm,mark
> emacs-w3m: emacs-w3m-1.3.4
>
> From my ~/.emacs:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> ;; w3m stuff
>
>  (setq load-path (cons (expand-file-name
>        "~/src/emacs-w3m-1.3.4") load-path))
>
> (setq w3m-command (concat "c:/cygwin/usr/local/bin/w3m.exe" ""))
> (load-library "w3m")
>
> ;;; causes the return key to submit a form
> (setq w3m-use-form t)
>
> (if (eq window-system 'w32)
> (setq w3m-content-type-alist
>       '(("text/plain" "\\.\\(txt\\|tex\\|el\\)" nil)
>                 ("text/html" "\\.s?html?$" w32-shellex-on-object file)
>                 ("image/jpeg" "\\.jpe?g$"  w32-shellex-on-object file)
>                 ("image/png" "\\.png$"     w32-shellex-on-object file)
>                 ("image/gif" "\\.gif$"     w32-shellex-on-object file)
>                 ("image/tiff" "\\.tif?f$"  w32-shellex-on-object file)
>                 ("image/x-xwd" "\\.xwd$"   w32-shellex-on-object file)
>                 ("image/x-xbm" "\\.xbm$"   w32-shellex-on-object file)
>                 ("image/x-xpm" "\\.xpm$"   w32-shellex-on-object file)
>                 ("image/x-bmp" "\\.bmp$"   w32-shellex-on-object file)
>                 ("video/mpeg" "\\.mpe?g$"  w32-shellex-on-object file)
>                 ("video/quicktime" "\\.mov$" w32-shellex-on-object file file)
>                 ("application/postscript" "\\.\\(ps\\|eps\\)$" 
> w32-shellex-on-object file)
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> tia.
>
> /g.

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