From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chris McMahan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: W3M with Emacs 21.3 under windows XP Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:11:52 -0500 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Message-ID: <4r5prh78xaf.fsf@one.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1235504444 20427 80.91.229.12 (24 Feb 2009 19:40:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:40:44 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 24 20:41:59 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 1Lc3AE-0006wW-O3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:41:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56648 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lc38u-0000SJ-As for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:40:36 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 35 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix5.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1235502708 25118 166.84.1.5 (24 Feb 2009 19:11:48 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:11:48 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.90 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:WJHlTSsLTPMwE2H0l984ofI4Dzg= Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:167031 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:62333 Archived-At: kelsogl writes: > I am an old emacs (ab)user. My programming training is limited to a > course in Fortran IV level G back in 1966. I have downloaded > w3m-0.5.2.tar.gz from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=39518&package_id=31682&release_id=512477 > and ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/i386/5.0/All/emacs-w3m-1.4.4nb1.tgz. > and have managed to extract the tarballs. I have been using a > precompiled emacs (GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600) of > 2003-03-27 on buffy) for years and would like to incorporate w3m but > have no idea where to even start. I have been running from help page > to help page for days and just am not smart enough to make it through > all the acronyms. Could someone be kind enough to give me a go-by to > help me get my directory structures put together properly and the > appropriate items added to my .emacs file. I am running XP service > pack 3 on a computer that my daughter built for me. It has an E6750 > dual core processor Thanks in advance. Emacs W3M mode is a front end to the w3m html-rendering program. You must have w3m installed for this to work. I'm using a version bundled with the cygwin unix emulation (www.cygwin.com), but that may be a bit heavy. I found a version compiled for windows platforms on sourceforge.net at the following URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/w3m - Chris -- (. .) =ooO=(_)=Ooo===================================== Chris McMahan | first_initiallastname@one.dot.net =================================================