Re: w3m display buffer

[Sébastien Vauban]

Hi Haines,

Haines Brown wrote:
> Romero,
>
> Just realized I'm in the "gnus" group, not "gnu" emacs group. I really
> must move my question about emacs and w3m elsewhere.

You'd better do, to get more answers.


> At present, in order to display a html file (I have a different emacs
> seesion for when I want to edit it), I do 
>
>         ! w3m filename.html
>
> There are two problems with this. Most of these html files have an eight
> or twn digit file name, and copying it is subject to error and takes a
> little time. Second, Sunrise-Commander appears as two panes, but beneat
> these panes is a scratch buffer (Lisp Interaction) mode. When I run the
> above command, the scratch buffer is divided into two panes, and the
> right one (Shell Command Output) displays the w3m rendering of the file.
>
> First, I need to get rid of the scratch buffer altogether, for I don't
> use it for this session of emas. Doing that might for the (Shell Command
> Output) to occupy the right Sunrise-Commander pane, which is fine. 
>
> Also I have to figure out how to run w3m on the current html file with
> simply a RET, like I do with PDF. There is a browse-url.el that might
> help, but I don't know if it is compatible with Sunrise-Commander.
>
> Actually a third problem is that I don't see that I'm using
> emacs-w3m. Other than a faster loading, I don't see what it is supposed
> to do beyond whast the above command does.
>
> You suggest that I define the variable "browse-url-browser-function". I
> tried it, but could save it only for current session because I'm using a
> custom emacs init file. I selected "Emacs W3", although I'm not sure of
> its realtion to emacs-w3m or w3m.

Emacs/W3 has nothing to do with Emacs-w3m...


> In any case, it opens the source FS, but no buffer holds the w3(m) output.

Install w3m from Cygwin, if under Windows, and have a look at section 54 of
http://www.mygooglest.com/fni/dot-emacs.html for a working example.

Best regards,
  Seb

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Sébastien Vauban