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Re: inclusion of emacs-w3m


From: Ivan Kanis
Subject: Re: inclusion of emacs-w3m
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 20:55:10 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux)

Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> a écrit

> Ivan Kanis <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> emacs-w3m is used with Gnus, newsticker and probably other packages.
>> Wouldn't it be useful to include it in emacs?
>
> The main problem with emacs-w3m is that it depends on the external w3m
> program, so it's an additional hassle.

Well w3m is available on Un*x, Windows and Mac so I think the external
binary is not much of a hassle.

> Now that Emacs proper has an HTML parser (via libxml2), an HTML renderer
> (via shr.el), and an HTTP library (via url*.el), writing a totally
> Emacs-based web browser should be pretty easy for somebody who has some
> time to spare.

I don't think it's that easy.
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Ivan Kanis
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