Re: How to setup w3m-el as a default browser on GNU system?

[Paul Chany]

Pedro Insua <pedroinsua@gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:56:57PM +0200, Paul Chany wrote:
>> Pedro Insua <pedroinsua@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>> > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 03:56:38PM +0200, Paul Chany wrote:
>> >> I need this setup because when in org-mode and want follow a link to a
>> >> file://path/some.html then an xterm being started and on it w3m as a
>> >> default browser. I try to setup Emacs and org-mode to open this file in
>> >> Emacs buffer in w3m-el but without any success. What am I missing here?
>> >    http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BrowseUrl
>> 
>> Thanks! I follow advices red here and setup variables:
>> ‘browse-url-browser-function’
>> ‘browse-url-generic-program’
>> 
>> I have now in my .emacs file:
>>  '(browse-url-browser-function (quote w3m-browse-url))
>>  '(browse-url-generic-program "w3m-browse-url")
>> 
>> and still when I C-c C-o on a file://path/some.html link, an xterm
>> appeare and on it w3m with the opened file! :(
>> 
>> What am I missing here?
>
>  mmm,  I'm Debian user too.. do you have w3m-el package installed? 

Yes, and I can open from an org file a http://path/some.html within
Emacs with w3m-el, but can't open a file file://path/some.html in the
same way because in the letter case I get opened xterm and on it w3m
instead to get the file opened within Emacs with w3m-el. :(

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