From: Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: w3m-el-snapshot installation
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 08:35:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y64212kz.fsf@engels.HistoricalMaterialism.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.12.1301091020.10079.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Michael,
Very interesting. After a decade using emacs I'm just now discovering
some basic utilities. Thanks!
Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:
> what makes you think that w3m-el-snapshot is not being used? What
> happens if you do M-x w3m in emacs -q?
Well, I thought w3m-el-snapshot was not being used because of the error
message when I try to display a html file and because there's no w3m
snapshot el or elc files..
When I try to run the w3m command in an emacs session without any init
file, I get "[no match]". However, if in dired I do "! w3m", it does not
complain and displays a text file. Not sure of the significance of
this. Is there both an internal and an external w3m command?
> I have Debian testing and w3m-el-snapshot installed. Here, all Elisp
> source files are in "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/w3m". In
> "/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/w3m", I see the byte compiles files
> (*.elc), and symlinks to the sources.
Not here. While my source files are also in
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/w3m, I do not have a
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/w3m/ directory at all. Instead I have a
/usr/share/emacs/23.2 directory that has a site-lisp symlink to the
compiled files in /usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/, which has no w3m
directory.
> Use M-x apt-utils-show-package to get package info for any Debian
> package. In the *APT package info* buffer, hit v f to list the
> installed files of this package. Try this for "w3m-el-snapshot" to see
> where the package files were installed.
I find w3m .el files in /usr/share/emacs/site-list/w3m, but no relevant
files elsewhere, whether they be .el or .elc.
> Use M-x locate-library w3m RET to check if your emacs uses the right
> w3m library.
Interesting. "No library w3m in search path". I could not infer from the
w3m-el-shapshot package description that w3m requires libraries.
> You can also try M-x list-load-path-shadows to check if any libraries
> of "w3m-el-snapshot" are shadowed.
No.
It seems that I have a broken w3m snapshot installation, for it did not
install libraries, and it did not create the /usr/share/emacs23/w3m
directory to hold elc files. Is that your impression as well?
I also find that I do not have w3m-el installed, although my impression
is that installing w3m-el-snapshot should install it, replacing an an
older version. However, w3m-el-snaphot does not specify what old version
is incompatible and what new version replaces it. In any case, I don't
have it.
I installed w3m-el-snapshot with aptitude. Should I have first removed
the w3m and perhaps w3m-el packages before trying to install
w3m-el-snapshot?
Haines
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-26 12:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-24 14:29 w3m-el-snapshot installation Haines Brown
2011-03-25 17:15 ` Michael Heerdegen
[not found] ` <mailman.12.1301091020.10079.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-26 12:35 ` Haines Brown [this message]
2011-03-26 21:26 ` Michael Heerdegen
[not found] ` <mailman.5.1301174764.2084.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-26 23:46 ` Haines Brown
2011-03-27 0:31 ` Tim X
2011-03-27 1:31 ` Michael Heerdegen
[not found] ` <mailman.0.1301189449.18353.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-27 12:21 ` Haines Brown
2011-03-27 16:00 ` Michael Heerdegen
[not found] ` <mailman.1.1301241602.27151.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-31 3:25 ` Haines Brown
2011-03-31 3:46 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-03-31 12:03 ` Richard Riley
2011-03-31 21:26 ` Tim X
2011-04-01 11:59 ` Haines Brown
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