Re: What are Emacs best uses?

[Sebastien Vauban]

Luca Ferrari wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Sebastien Vauban wrote:
>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>>       ;; use proxy
>>       (setq url-proxy-services
>>             `(("http"     . ,(getenv "http_proxy"))
>>               ("ftp"      . ,(getenv "http_proxy"))
>>               ("no_proxy" . "^.*example.com")))
>>               ;; disable proxy for some hosts
>>      ))
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Despite two extra parens in the end,

Yep, sorry!

> no, it does not help. I tried to update the package list but got "Failed to
> download 'gnu' archive". I then tried to get an URL with w3 but I got
> "http/80 Name or service unknown".

???

> How can I test if the proxy settings are working? By the way, http_proxy is
> set correctly.

M-x browse-url-emacs RET http://www.google.com/ RET?

Best regards,
  Seb

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Sebastien Vauban