From: happy@vole.com (mr.sparkle)
Subject: Re: Holy Wars redux: w3 vs. emacs-w3m
Date: 04 Nov 2002 19:41:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2y988rgp8.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1036345624.19554.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
On Sun, 03 Nov 2002, blackwolf@pcisys.net wrote:
> I've been using w3 off-and-on in the past, but since I'm trying to
> go far more text-centric on my desktop[1] I'd like to do the little
> web browsing that I do from within Emacs. I've downloaded w3
> v4.0pre.47 and have been getting that nasty ``wrong type argument:
> stringp, nil'' error[2] that's been mentioned lately. Anyone have
> an opinion[3] on W3 vs. emacs-w3m?
>
> [1] Full-screen xterm running screen, with a Mozilla tab (using the
> PWM window manager) as a last resort.
>
> [2] No, I haven't tried to get a backtrace ... sorry.
>
> [3] Heh
I found w3 to be sloooooow. emacs-w3m is reasonably fast and it
renders html nicely. I use emacs-w3m as the browser for html files in
dired and I have no complaints so far.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-05 0:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.1036345624.19554.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2002-11-03 17:55 ` Holy Wars redux: w3 vs. emacs-w3m Adam P.
2002-11-03 18:38 ` Henrik Enberg
2002-11-04 15:19 ` Oliver Scholz
2002-11-04 19:46 ` A. Lucien Meyers
2002-11-04 20:32 ` Henrik Enberg
2002-11-04 22:30 ` Oliver Scholz
2002-11-04 23:00 ` Oliver Scholz
2002-11-05 5:02 ` Michael J. Barillier
[not found] ` <mailman.1036473338.10358.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2002-11-05 15:47 ` Jay Belanger
2002-11-05 0:41 ` mr.sparkle [this message]
2002-11-05 13:20 ` Sacha Chua
2002-11-03 17:33 Michael J. Barillier
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