Re: "Anything" package requires w3m command...

[Elena <egarrulo@gmail.com>]

Thierry Volpiatto, an anything-config maintainer, has quickly and
kindly answered my questions about the issues we are experiencing.  He
has asked me to forward his reply on this newsgroup, which I'm doing
right now.

Thierry's reply follows:

Hi Elena,
thanks to report that.

> > Dear maintainers of anything-config,
> >
> > thank you for sharing such package.
> >
> > An user has posted a question on gnu.emacs.help about
> > anything-config.el being dependent on w3m at load time.  I've checked
> > anything-config.el and such dependency seems rather pervasive (many
> > occurrences of it, I'm not skilled enough to understand better).
> > Since Emacs users on platforms other than *nix cannot install w3m,
> > they can't load anything-config either.  Do you think such dependency
> > could be removed?

There is no dependency on w3m, it is not needed.
I just tried it on windowsXP in a virtualbox with no problem.
I think these user have old sources of anything in their config or old
versions of anything-config.el.
Please try again with emacs -Q and just require anything-config.el.
use last versions from git:
URL             git://repo.or.cz/anything-config.git
                http://repo.or.cz/r/anything-config.git

However trying that, i just notice that anything-find-files fail if
tramp is not loaded.
I will commit a fix for that in few minutes.

> > Here is the post on gnu.emacs.help:
> >
> > http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.emacs.help/browse_thread/thread/fa290817eadcc487/d5d288dd43fe966d#d5d288dd43fe966d

Could you forward this on emacs-help?
Thanks.

> > Thanks.
> > Elena