Re: emacs-w3m and Emacs 23.1.1

[Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null>]

quodlibetor <quodlibetor@gmail.com> writes:

> I had this problem with M-x customize, here's what I did to break it
> further in order for me to be able to customize things. (That is, this
> works for me but I think I'm setting fire to my hard drive. You have
> been warned)
>
>
> First, I set `debug-on-error' to `t'
>
>      M-: (setq debug-on-error t) RET
>
> Then I did M-x customize (in your case M-x w3m) and, in the debug
> buffer that popped up, I looked for the defun that failed, which
> should be underlined, which means that it's a link. If you click on
> it, it should take you to the file that is (setq)ing widget-mouse-
> face.
>
> Then, I commented out every line (setq)'d widget-mouse-face (I had to
> start an editor as root to be able to edit the file.)
>
> Then, I saved it.
>
> Then, I
>
>     M-x byte-compile-file RET
>
> 'd it.
>
> Then, I restarted emacs, and it worked.
>
> This feels like the wrong thing to do, but it works, and really,
> widget-mouse-face *shouldn't* be important to the functionality of
> anything, but god knows what the developer uses it for.


I missed the start of the thread, so I might be misisng valuable
information.

Both Debian and Ubuntu have a w3m-el-snapshot package that contains the
latest development snapshot of w3m-el. It works without error under
emacs 23 (including CVS versions aka 23.2). For those not running a
distro with a dev snapshot package of w3m-el, building form the latest
version should work fine with emacs 23. 

Tim


 


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