w3m navigation

w3m navigation

[Lorenzo Isella]

Dear All,
I am giving a try to the w3m emacs web-browser. I am finding it pretty
interesting.
In order to change from a web page to another, I tried out all the
suggestions in:

http://emacs-w3m.namazu.org/info/emacs-w3m_13.html#SEC13

However, every time I try to visit a new web page,  I have to modify
the url of the current page, whereas I would like to be able to type
in directly the url I would like to visit. I am sure that for someone
experienced this has to be a one-liner in the .emacs file, or maybe
there is something I am misunderstanding.
Many thanks for any suggestions.
Cheers

Lorenzo

Re: w3m navigation

[David Hansen]

On Fri, 2 May 2008 12:12:13 +0200 Lorenzo Isella wrote:

> However, every time I try to visit a new web page,  I have to modify
> the url of the current page, whereas I would like to be able to type
> in directly the url I would like to visit. I am sure that for someone
> experienced this has to be a one-liner in the .emacs file, or maybe
> there is something I am misunderstanding.

Is hitting C-k to much work?

(defun dh-w3m-goto-url ()
  (interactive)
  (let ((w3m-current-url ""))
    (call-interactively #'w3m-goto-url)))

(define-key w3m-mode-map (kbd "g") #'dh-w3m-goto-url)

seems to do it.

David

Re: w3m navigation

[Tim X]

"Lorenzo Isella" <lorenzo.isella@gmail.com> writes:

> Dear All,
> I am giving a try to the w3m emacs web-browser. I am finding it pretty
> interesting.
> In order to change from a web page to another, I tried out all the
> suggestions in:
>
> http://emacs-w3m.namazu.org/info/emacs-w3m_13.html#SEC13
>
> However, every time I try to visit a new web page,  I have to modify
> the url of the current page, whereas I would like to be able to type
> in directly the url I would like to visit. I am sure that for someone
> experienced this has to be a one-liner in the .emacs file, or maybe
> there is something I am misunderstanding.
> Many thanks for any suggestions.
> Cheers
>
> Lorenzo
>

What I do is hit 'g', type in the new url or paste in a new one and then
hit C-k to kill the rest of the line. When you hit 'g', you are put at
the beginning of the line with the current url as default. Hitting C-k
kills the line from where the cursor is to the end. Therefore, anything
you type is inserted before the 'default' url, so C-k clears it. Its
similar behavior to firefox when you hit C-l, in which case the current
url is highlighted and you hit del to clear it - with w3m instead of
hitting del to clear it, you hit C-k.

Tim

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