From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#25394: bug#25395: 25.1; Emacs/W3 crashes on every url with elisp error (void-variable w3--args) Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 09:50:46 +0200 Message-ID: <87lftupdbd.fsf@gnus.org> References: <78e2b7ed-dae2-822e-1c94-4990160e50fe@earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="129803"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Steven Litvintchouk , 25394@debbugs.gnu.org, 25395@debbugs.gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 09 18:41:17 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iIF1Z-000Xa3-7U for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Oct 2019 18:41:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52432 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iIF1X-0005Hy-BC for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Oct 2019 12:41:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:42020) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iI6kR-00034X-Ak for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Oct 2019 03:51:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iI6kQ-0000rE-3o for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Oct 2019 03:51:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:43218) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iI6kQ-0000rA-0t for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Oct 2019 03:51:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iI6kP-0003iM-TW for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Oct 2019 03:51:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 07:51:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 25394 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 25394-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B25394.157060745414256 (code B ref 25394); Wed, 09 Oct 2019 07:51:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 25394) by debbugs.gnu.org; 9 Oct 2019 07:50:54 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52039 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iI6kH-0003hn-Lq for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 09 Oct 2019 03:50:53 -0400 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]:56596) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iI6kF-0003hY-FU; Wed, 09 Oct 2019 03:50:51 -0400 Original-Received: from cm-84.212.202.86.getinternet.no ([84.212.202.86] helo=marnie) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iI6kA-0004dG-UT; Wed, 09 Oct 2019 09:50:49 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Glenn Morris's message of "Tue, 10 Jan 2017 23:26:25 -0500") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:168709 Archived-At: Glenn Morris writes: >> Still, doesn't seem actively maintained, based on >> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/elpa.git/?h=externals/w3 > > To expand on this: > > According to the above url: > The package was last developed 8.5 years ago. > It was added to elpa.gnu.org 3 years ago, with 4 commits. > The error you are seeing comes from one of those commits ("try to fix > compiler warnings"). "M-x w3" has the same error. So I can only > assume this package has not been tested or used by anyone since it was > added to elpa.gnu.org. > So I have to wonder what the value of having it there is. > > I suggest you use M-x eww instead, and that if no-one wants to maintain > w3 it be removed from elpa.gnu.org. (This was two years ago.) I agree -- when it doesn't even start up with `M-x w3' it seems pretty useless to have in GNU ELPA. How does one remove something from ELPA? -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no