Re: How to get web browsing functionality in emacs 23?

[Krzysztof Bieniasz]

> Hi,
> 
> I am running GNU Emacs 23.2.92.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS
> apple-appkit-1038.35) of 2011-01-15 on OSX 10.6 obtained from
> http://emacsformacosx.com/
> 
> I would like to browse certain web pages from within emacs and did not
> find working browser functionality within the downloaded package.
> 
> When trying good old but slow M-x w3 emacs barks
>  'font-default-size-for-device: Wrong type argument: arrayp, nil'
> 
> So I thought about trying emacs-w3m. I installed w3m and it works fine
> from within a terminal.
>
> When installing emacs-w3m, it complains about missing apel and flim and
> missing load-file subst-ksc

Have you considered installing them then? It might be useful to install a 
package's dependencies.

> I can hardly believe that I have to go through all that trouble to get a
> working browser within emacs. Before I loose more time with this, I'd
> like to hear some advise from the list.
> 
> Surely, I can't be the only emacs guy that wants e.g. to read www based
> documentation from within emacs...

Coincidentally I installed w3m just yesterday for the first time. It 
works fine so obviously it's not that much of a problem.