From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Sebastien Vauban" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What are Emacs best uses? Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 10:25:25 +0200 Organization: Sebastien Vauban Message-ID: <86eh9okbuy.fsf@somewhere.org> References: <86ob8tojz0.fsf@somewhere.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1376987418 20466 80.91.229.3 (20 Aug 2013 08:30:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 08:30:18 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Tue Aug 20 10:30:18 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VBhKT-0006wH-HY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2013 10:30:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46607 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBhKT-0008O6-17 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2013 04:30:17 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="402b34550bd938aa98825778083dce0e"; logging-data="3315"; mail-complaints-to="abuse-VVbKFVtnif8H+i2N2EyTrmui9UKz+5OX@public.gmane.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+IA+9a6TqilM1UFkcc74dI" User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.3 (windows-nt) X-Archive: encrypt Cancel-Lock: sha1:dcdaMp1KE7VOdiIVExIlFFpAtm0= sha1:FHAUxpmgoRwp5CiwrpGxpsxoTpE= X-Url: Under construction... Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:200739 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93006 Archived-At: Luca Ferrari wrote: > On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Sebastien Vauban wrote: > >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- >> ;; use proxy >> (setq url-proxy-services >> `(("http" . ,(getenv "http_proxy")) >> ("ftp" . ,(getenv "http_proxy")) >> ("no_proxy" . "^.*example.com"))) >> ;; disable proxy for some hosts >> )) >> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > Despite two extra parens in the end, Yep, sorry! > no, it does not help. I tried to update the package list but got "Failed to > download 'gnu' archive". I then tried to get an URL with w3 but I got > "http/80 Name or service unknown". ??? > How can I test if the proxy settings are working? By the way, http_proxy is > set correctly. M-x browse-url-emacs RET http://www.google.com/ RET? Best regards, Seb -- Sebastien Vauban