From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kelsogl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: W3M with Emacs 21.3 under windows XP Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:15:25 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <5aa5c132-7d93-4af2-b8bc-26077e8297ee@w35g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> References: <4r5prh78xaf.fsf@one.net> <52f16aba-4d1f-46c9-80b4-77ac1d728b64@k19g2000yqg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1235576677 11799 80.91.229.12 (25 Feb 2009 15:44:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:44:37 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 25 16:45:53 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 1LcLtY-00072N-NH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:42:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36647 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LcLsE-00009h-4g for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:40:38 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!w35g2000yqm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.30.169.7 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1235574925 19276 127.0.0.1 (25 Feb 2009 15:15:25 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:15:25 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: w35g2000yqm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=209.30.169.7; posting-account=IHKShwoAAACHgM52tLogPb_mJEOsdu9C User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:167067 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:62373 Archived-At: On Feb 25, 3:34=A0am, Peter Dyballa wrote: > Am 25.02.2009 um 00:28 schrieb kelsogl: > > > Is an exec path like a load-path? > > Yes. It only tells GNU Emacs where to find executables. It's a =A0 > variable which you can examine =96 and manipulate. Part of the w3m =A0 > package is an executable w3m. (And w3mman.) > > -- > Greetings > > =A0 =A0Pete > > Never be led astray onto the path of virtue I guess my main problem with telling GNU Emacs where to find the executable seems to be that I cannot find the executable myself. The only way I have ever been able to identify a windows executable is by the tell-tale .exe and I find none of these. At the suggestion of Chris McMahan I went to http://sourceforge.net/projects/w3m and downloaded w3m-0.5.2.tar.gz . I then used gunzip and and then tar -x to decompress the tarball and put it in the directory with my version 21.3 of emacs. I then attempted to add c:/Program Files/Emacs/ Emacs-21.3/w3m-0.5.2 to my exec path using the `C-h v' and feeding it exec-path. When I clicked on the GUI "Save for Future Sessions" I get another nasty message : Scan error: "Unbalanced parentheses", 11342, 81754. Even though I got no error when using the "State" GUI to "save for future sessions". M-x w3m still results in: Install w3m command in `exec-path' or set `w3m-command' variable correctly. When I did the "save for future sessions" I expected some magic to cause a change to my .emacs file but none occurred. What am I doing wrong, or would it just be easier to tell me if I did anything right?