From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: w3m questions Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:32:21 +0100 Organization: Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229542920 27328 80.91.229.12 (17 Dec 2008 19:42:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:42:00 +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 Dec 17 20:43:04 2008 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 1LD2I8-0002vV-F5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:42:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42621 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LD2Gw-0001bg-Fg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:41:30 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!news-1.dfn.de!news.uni-jena.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ppc228.mipool.uni-jena.de Original-X-Trace: lc03.rz.uni-jena.de 1229531541 16327 141.35.13.119 (17 Dec 2008 16:32:21 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@uni-jena.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:32:21 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:l8C0kbAjVcI1dQsU5vJwR0TbBHA= Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:165408 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:40:42 -0500 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:60742 Archived-At: Hello, I have some questions about emacs/w3m. I have an old computer and only a 56K modem and so w3m seems to be a good browser for me. 1. Is there a way to stop loading a page (other than C-c C-w which deletes the whole buffer). C-c C-k only affects the download of one part of a page like an image. When loading a big page, Emacs sometimes doesn't react to keyboard input for a long time. 2. Often, w3m uses up all available system memory including swap and freezes emacs and the whole system. With firefox I can have many more open sites without any problems. Doesn't w3m use files for caching? I tried (setq w3m-keep-cache-size 2) but then always reloads the whole page. Is there a better solution? 3. Is it save to do online banking, amazon, ebay and such stuff with emacs/w3m? Thanks in advance! Michael