Questions tagged [w3m]
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Creating permanent fixed buffer for CLHS lookup
Suppose I open one window with a Common Lisp file in it, and a second window with SLIME REPL in it (using M-x slime or whatever). Now, doing C-c C-d h with point on a Common Lisp keyword brings up a window with the CLHS entry for that keyword (using…

Faheem Mitha
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How can I sign in using Google to Emacs StackExchange to post questions
I am able to browse the Emacs StackExchange site using Emacs with M-x w3m b URL RET
I wanted to try out posting questions and answers to the site using Emacs. The main hurdle I am facing is to sign in using my Google account. In a regular browser…

Amit Tendulkar
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syncing html with w3m
How can I split Emacs to two buffers, one for html and the other for w3m so that when I save the html it refreshes the w3m buffer. Also, when I press E in the w3m buffer it takes me to the corresponding position in the html buffer. Exactly like the…

Waleed A. Yousef
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Make gnus display inline html images by default
How can I make gnus display inline images from html articles by default?
A command exists to display them on a per-article basis:
gnus-article-show-images
however I would like this behavior automatically.
Google searches turn up articles dating all…

Meizikyn
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eww/w3m search based on underlying page source
Is there a robust/general way in eww browser (or alternatively w3m in emacs) by which I can get the character position in a rendered page from a known character position in the page source?
I'd like to use this to automatically jump to "important"…

Mark
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How to escape % in emacs
I'm trying to add a search engine in emacs-w3m and use duckduckgo to search emacswiki
(eval-after-load "w3m-search"
'(progn
(setq w3m-search-engine-alist
(append '(
("emacswiki"…

DJJ
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display images in emacs w3m in terminal
I would like w3m in emacs (in a terminal) to show me pictures.
Showing pictures in emacs gui works:
Showing pictures in the terminal without emacs works:
But in emacs w3m running in a terminal, no images are shown:
Pressing T doesn't help,…

Kaligule
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Gnus cannot start external w3m: no such file or directory
while I am using Emacs as an editor for years on my Macbook (OSX 10.13), I only recently started again to launch external commands by using Gnus. While this answer helped me to fix calls to uncompface, it is still failing for w3m:
Cannot open load…

Seki
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emacs-w3m has quit working for me, but not other users
GNU Emacs Version 26.1 and emacs-w3m version 1.4.631, running on Fedora 29.
emacs-w3m seems to have quit working for me. More precisely:
I issue the command "emacs -q"
I do (set debug-on-error t) in the scratch buffer.
I do (w3m) in the scratch…

agw
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Transform w3m buffer names in ivy-switch-buffer
emacs-w3m really likes to have its buffers have names like *w3m*<16> or *w3m* so when switching buffers, it's impossible to tell just from the names which buffer is displaying which web page.
I've tried renaming the w3m buffers to their web page…

izkon
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emacs-w3m Buffer Navigation Tree
I need to go several URLs' back, because if I just hit B, which takes me to the last URL I visited in this buffer, I get right back to where I started, because it's a redirect;)
So, how can I manage to get further up the buffer navigation tree?;)
,…

Jason Hunter
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w3m Lookup, Special Characters
If I search for "c#" or anything with special characters, they somehow get removed.
Not sure which part of this removes the "#";)
(defun w3m-lookup-first-clipboard-item ()
"Look up the current word's definition in a browser.
If a region is active…

Jason Hunter
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w3m Always Display Link Numbers
I can turn on link numbering with L f, but how can I keep link numbering always on?;)
I'm not sure if emacs-w3m picks up config from ~/.w3m/w3m, cause I do find a "display_link_number 1" there, but this doesn't seem to have any effect.
L f is bound…

Jason Hunter
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w3m view image under a point in an external viewer not working
I try to view image under a point in external viewer by w3m-view-image, but when I call it I get in the *Messages*:
zsh:1: no matches found: accept_media=*/*
How can I make it working?
I use:
macOS 10.15.7
Emacs 27.1.90
EDIT:
Following @lawlist…

Navidot
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how to use org to open w3m url in a new window
I often use C-c l key strike to store link in w3m
and use C-c C-l to save link in org
but when I click this link, the current org window jump to w3m window
I need the current org window not change
and open the link to w3m window in a new window

ccd
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