Re: w3 from the console (and under X)

[upro]

"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il> writes:

>> From: upro <upro@gmx.net>
>> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
>> Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 20:27:17 +0200
>> 
>> When I run emacs under X Windows I have no problems using w3, but when
>> I run emacs from the console w3 soed not start, and I get an error
>> message in the modeline which says simply: "Wrong type argument:
>> stringp, nil". In *Messages* I can read:
>> "Set-face-attribute: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil".
>
> I'm not sure W3 is supposed to work on a tty, but if you have Emacs
> 21.x, please set debug-on-error to a non-nil value and then post here
> the backtrace produced when you try to start W3.  It could be that
> there's some bug, either in Emacs or in W3, that is easy to fix, since
> Emacs 21 supports faces on a tty.
>
>

Hi Eli - thanks for your answer! Here's the output from debug:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
  internal-set-lisp-face-attribute(w3-style-face-00000 :family nil 0)
  set-face-attribute(w3-style-face-00000 nil :underline nil :weight normal 
:family nil)
  font-set-face-font(w3-style-face-00000 [:family nil :weight nil :style 0 
:size nil :registry nil :encoding nil])
  w3-display-node((*document nil ((html nil ...))))
  w3-draw-tree(((*document nil (...))))
  w3-prepare-buffer()
  w3-pass-to-viewer()
  w3-sentinel(#<buffer *Customize Browser*>)
  w3-fetch("http://www.cs.indiana.edu/elisp/w3/docs.html";)
  w3()
* call-interactively(w3)
  execute-extended-command(nil)
  call-interactively(execute-extended-command)


Thank You In Advance!
-- 
Michael

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