From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: upro Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: w3 from the console (and under X) Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 10:41:14 +0200 Organization: Slackers Home Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87el3fhzo5.fsf@gmx.net> References: <87d6izq41m.fsf@gmx.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1052038159 18711 80.91.224.249 (4 May 2003 08:49:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 08:49:19 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 04 10:49:18 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19CFBO-0004rf-00 for ; Sun, 04 May 2003 10:49:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19CFCZ-0007lJ-02 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 May 2003 04:50:31 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!newspump.monmouth.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!212.66.64.205!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 44 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.66.64.205 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1052038101 15419769 212.66.64.205 (16 [172438]) Os: Slackware Linux 2.4.19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Dcx+MgSjKFODRpWZYf1voFNgRQ8= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:112749 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:9244 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:9244 "Eli Zaretskii" writes: >> From: upro >> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help >> Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 20:27:17 +0200 >> >> When I run emacs under X Windows I have no problems using w3, but when >> I run emacs from the console w3 soed not start, and I get an error >> message in the modeline which says simply: "Wrong type argument: >> stringp, nil". In *Messages* I can read: >> "Set-face-attribute: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil". > > I'm not sure W3 is supposed to work on a tty, but if you have Emacs > 21.x, please set debug-on-error to a non-nil value and then post here > the backtrace produced when you try to start W3. It could be that > there's some bug, either in Emacs or in W3, that is easy to fix, since > Emacs 21 supports faces on a tty. > > Hi Eli - thanks for your answer! Here's the output from debug: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) internal-set-lisp-face-attribute(w3-style-face-00000 :family nil 0) set-face-attribute(w3-style-face-00000 nil :underline nil :weight normal :family nil) font-set-face-font(w3-style-face-00000 [:family nil :weight nil :style 0 :size nil :registry nil :encoding nil]) w3-display-node((*document nil ((html nil ...)))) w3-draw-tree(((*document nil (...)))) w3-prepare-buffer() w3-pass-to-viewer() w3-sentinel(#) w3-fetch("http://www.cs.indiana.edu/elisp/w3/docs.html") w3() * call-interactively(w3) execute-extended-command(nil) call-interactively(execute-extended-command) Thank You In Advance! -- Michael r-znvy: zvpunry.wryqra jro.qr (chg gur "@" jurer vg svgf...) ab fcnz cyrnfr