From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Elena Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: "Anything" package requires w3m command... Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 09:44:41 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <0d15abf8-ba73-4333-bba6-f52a8e899ba6@k11g2000vbf.googlegroups.com> References: <80ipzazi33.fsf@missioncriticalit.com> <87d3picyah.fsf@fh-trier.de> <804oar16qv.fsf@missioncriticalit.com> <9e2a7518-2fc7-43dc-8dac-195805205968@k38g2000vbc.googlegroups.com> <80oc8ksa83.fsf@missioncriticalit.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292612132 24936 80.91.229.12 (17 Dec 2010 18:55:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 18:55:32 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 17 19:55:28 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PTfSh-0004wc-KL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Dec 2010 19:55:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47490 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PTfSg-0005OO-6G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Dec 2010 13:55:26 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!k11g2000vbf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 67 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 94.36.147.45 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1292607881 29988 127.0.0.1 (17 Dec 2010 17:44:41 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 17:44:41 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: k11g2000vbf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=94.36.147.45; posting-account=AFCLjAoAAABJAOf_HjgEEEi3ty-lG5m2 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:183377 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:77629 Archived-At: On Dec 17, 4:14=A0pm, S=E9bastien Vauban wrote: > Hi Elena, > > > > Elena wrote: > > On Dec 6, 11:27=A0am, S=E9bastien Vauban > > wrote: > >> Hi Andreas, > > >> Andreas Politz wrote: > >> > S=E9bastien Vauban writes: > >> >> I want to re-use `anything', being such a day-to-day helper, with i= ts > >> >> fantastic extra sources. > > >> >> But, if I don't have W3m installed, I get this: > > >> >> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Install w3m command in `exec-= path' or set `w3m-command' variable correctly") > >> >> =A0 (if (not (stringp w3m-command)) (progn (error "Install w3m comm= and in `exec-path' or set `w3m-command' variable correctly"))) > >> >> =A0 require(anything-config) > > >> > Have you tried to (setq w3m-command "") ? > > >> That did work... Thanks for the tip which is of great help (until it g= ets fixed)... > > > What configuration are you running? =A0Mine is GNU Emacs 23.2 on Window= s > > XP. > > GNU Emacs 23.1.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2009-10-14 on LENNART-69DE= 564 (patched) > > > I'm experiencing the same issue, and (setq w3m-command "") just > > changes the error from: > > > if: Install w3m command in `exec-path' or set `w3m-command' variable > > correctly > > > to: > > > Error: (file-error "Searching for program" "no such file or directory" > > "") > > You're right. It does *not* work. I don't know why I have had the impress= ion > it was working... > > But, nope, if you don't have W3M installed, you'll get Emacs stopped duri= ng > loading the conf file. Very very annoying. > > Best regards, > =A0 Seb > > -- > S=E9bastien Vauban Removing references to "w3m" from anything-config.el seems a rather pervasive fix. I'll check whether the maintainer is willing to do it. However, please note that "anything-config" is not necessary for "anything" to work. It's just a shared configuration from an user.