Re: w3m browser in Emacs

[Xah Lee]

On Jun 18, 7:15 pm, Will Willis <will.wil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What does it take to get w3m working? Out of the box, w3m doesn't come
> on my Emacs builds on Mac or Windows.

you have to install it.

on OS X, you can intall it thru Fink or MacPorts. On windows, you can
install it thru Cygwin.

Once you installed it, you have to install the elisp package that
integrate it with emacs. Look at emacswiki about where to get it.

I don't particularly recommend it. The advantage is too trivial, and
the cost to install and maintain, learn, is a bit high. When using it
in emacs, it is actually some 2 or more times slower, than actually
using a full featured browser with graphics and css and javascript
all.

there are a lot quality browsers today (safari, chrom, opera,
firefox). If you want, you can set up one of these browsers to not
load graphics or css or javascript. And you can set shortcut keys in
emacs or system wide to easily switch to and fro between emacs and
that browser. Or, have a region in emacs automatically launch to the
browser to do web search or stuff. For this, see:
http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_lookup_ref.html

  Xah
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