Re: w3m display buffer

[Haines Brown]

José A. Romero L. <escherdragon@gmail.com> writes:

>> must move my question about emacs and w3m elsewhere.
>
> Yes, I guess you should.

Not sure how to do that in mid thread. I keep looking for an obvious
termination point.

>> 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.
>
> Not the best solution IMHO -- that won't allow you to follow the
> links.

I thought I was complaining about a cumbersome process, not a "best
solution" ;-(. I'd like to hit one or two keys and have the hmtl file
display. I don't care about following the links in these kinds of files.

>> First, I need to get rid of the scratch buffer altogether, ...

> Give the PopViewer extension a try, then.

Yes, much better

>> 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.

I can't try it out until I have emacs-w3m working. I installed the
debian binary w3m-el-snapshot. This is compatible with my emacs 23.
I had to change the load path from ~/elisp/w3m/ to /~emacs-w3m/. 

My impression is that to use emacs-w3m, you run this command on the
selected .html file:

         M-x w3m

However, it returns the error that w3m is not a match. It seems either
this is the wrong way to invoke emacs-w3m or emacs is not seeing
emacs-w3m-snapshot.

Haines Brown