From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Fineman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: w3m browser in Emacs Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:51:01 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <8c839f13-1b7b-4f69-b0b2-8749591166e7@y33g2000prg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1245451235 16297 80.91.229.12 (19 Jun 2009 22:40:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:40:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 20 00:40:33 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MHml6-00082z-SH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:40:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41378 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MHml6-0002BH-An for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:40:32 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-2.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!feeder.erje.net!feeder.motzarella.org!news.motzarella.org!eternal-september.org!news.motzarella.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX1+9zXD9+6n8+gufGjVdMAKKDGd0Vi3x0M0rmAn9If3+L9TtK2NduhhAcv8u1h6oL7rEOwZRc6wK20J1v99bPVHNb+rYRvKb5tUA0VVZPyXZ4PhRMKtZCCRO9ridBVS8rtc= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@motzarella.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:52:04 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX19I8fv2kiKj1E3Q/FWRT27YewNa+lQTTVU= Cancel-Lock: sha1:l+BUVzvUN25C59lcZizYVzQ6rNg= sha1:qF5hgjLLWT26zc8NE8UOpug6VXs= User-Agent: Gnus/5.101 (Gnus v5.10.10) Emacs/22.3 (windows-nt) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:170167 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:65387 Archived-At: Xah Lee writes: > I don't particularly recommend it. The advantage is too trivial, and > the cost to install and maintain, learn, is a bit high. When using > it in emacs, it is actually some 2 or more times slower, than > actually using a full featured browser with graphics and css and > javascript all. > > there are a lot quality browsers today (safari, chrom, opera, > firefox). If you want, you can set up one of these browsers to not > load graphics or css or javascript. And you can set shortcut keys in > emacs or system wide to easily switch to and fro between emacs and > that browser. Or, have a region in emacs automatically launch to the > browser to do web search or stuff. For this, see: > http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_lookup_ref.html I have IE, Firefox, Conkeror, and w3m. I use Conkeror for serious browsing, but I find w3m, despite its clunkiness, convenient for simple queries, especially for business (copyediting); I can often quickly answer the question "Is this a real word?" without leaving Emacs. I have an Emacs command that, when I type C-c g, prompts for a word or phrase & looks it up in Google. -- --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: The DEA is our Taliban. :||