Re: Opening hyperlinks with w3m-el in Emacs buffer?

[pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)]

Paul Chany <csanyipal@gmail.com> writes:

> Paul Chany <csanyipal@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I'm using w3m-el to browse the Internet.
>>
>> I'm using Org-mode too. In one of my .org file I have an external
>> hyperlink that is pointing to
>> http://www.gnustep.it/nicola/Tutorials/Renaissance/index.html
>>
>> When I C-c C-o on that link to open it then I get a message: Cannot open
>> load file: w3.
>>
>> I have tried customize Emacs to get this to work but so far without
>> success.
>> I googled for the solution the Internet but nothing find.
>> I red the GNU Emacs Manual but again don't find the solution.
>>
>> I have these customizations in my .emacs file:
>>  '(browse-url-browser-function (quote browse-url-w3))
>>  '(browse-url-new-window-flag t)
>>
>> How can I setup Emacs to get this to work?
>
> I get help: just add w3m-browse-url instead of browse-url-w3 to
> browse-url-browser-function and it just works!
>
> Why don't change the Emacs Developers in the Emacs Customization Buffer
> in the [Value Menu] to be instead of 'browse-url-w3' the
> 'w3m-browse-url'?

Ask them.

But notice that there are tens of different browsers, so whatever
setting they may put by default, a lot of people will be unhappy about
it.  You MUST configure it yourself!


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