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

[Pedro Insua]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 03:56:38PM +0200, Paul Chany wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze operating system.
> 
> This is an old PC Box with AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor and 60 MB RAM.
> 
> I'm using GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.2) of
> 2009-11-02 on raven, modified by Debian.
> 
> This system is very slow so I want to use Emacs-w3m as a system default
> browser. Is this possible and if yes, how can I setup this?
> 
> 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?
> 

 Take a look at: 

   http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BrowseUrl

 Or put in your .emacs file something like:

   '(browse-url-browser-function (quote w3m))

> Any advices will be appreciated!
> 

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