From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: w3m gives 'Wrong type argument: stringp, nil" error Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 15:13:58 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3EDFB296.2090702@yahoo.com> References: <343aeada.0306031339.15e390bb@posting.google.com> <343aeada.0306040835.ad5b36f@posting.google.com> <343aeada.0306042019.3ede2c7e@posting.google.com> <343aeada.0306051128.2a691cc6@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1054848001 11942 80.91.224.249 (5 Jun 2003 21:20:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 21:20:01 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 05 23:19:59 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 19O249-0002bQ-00 for ; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 23:14:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19O258-00050w-Qf for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 17:15:34 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1054847631 12311966 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:114193 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:10687 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:10687 Christopher M. Balz wrote: > Finally, does anyone know how to point w3m to its cgi, or, more > generally, how to just get it to work with local files? My main > motivation for using w3m is to access Javadoc and other types of HTML > doc very fast -- it works g-r-r-reat for that as an Emacs HTML > browser. But when I try to browse a local file directory, I get > "Cannot load c:/usr/local/lib/w3m/dirlist.cgi" or "Cannot retrieve > URL". Does it work if you specify a valid URL file://localhost/c:usr/local/lib/w3m/dirlist.cgi or whatever is correct for file names with drive letters. -- Kevin Rodgers