emacs-w3m and Emacs 23.1.1

[Jim Burton]

Hi, I'm trying to use the cvs version of emacs-w3m with Emacs 23.1.1 (the last stable
emacs-w3m won't load in emacs 23, and the trick on the wiki about telling it you're using an
older emacs doesn't work for me). I can load the cvs version ok in my init but when I run it
with M-x w3m I get this error:

w3m-setup-widget-faces: Symbol widget-mouse-face may not be buffer-local

Am I missing some package? What can I do to fix this? I am using Arch Linux.

Thanks a lot,

Jim

[quodlibetor]

I had this problem with M-x customize, here's what I did to break it
further in order for me to be able to customize things. (That is, this
works for me but I think I'm setting fire to my hard drive. You have
been warned)

First, I set `debug-on-error' to `t'

M-: (setq debug-on-error t) RET

Then I did M-x customize (in your case M-x w3m) and, in the debug
buffer that popped up, I looked for the defun that failed, which
should be underlined, which means that it's a link. If you click on
it, it should take you to the file that is (setq)ing widget-mouse-
face.

Then, I commented out every line (setq)'d widget-mouse-face (I had to
start an editor as root to be able to edit the file.)

Then, I saved it.

Then, I

M-x byte-compile-file RET

'd it.

Then, I restarted emacs, and it worked.

This feels like the wrong thing to do, but it works, and really,
widget-mouse-face *shouldn't* be important to the functionality of
anything, but god knows what the developer uses it for.

[Andreas Röhler]

> Thanks,
>
> Jim
>
>
>

Hi,

think it might be helpful to drop a message to w3m mailing list:
emac...@namazu.org

Thanks

Andreas

[Tim X]

quodlibetor <quodl...@gmail.com> writes:

I missed the start of the thread, so I might be misisng valuable
information.

Both Debian and Ubuntu have a w3m-el-snapshot package that contains the
latest development snapshot of w3m-el. It works without error under
emacs 23 (including CVS versions aka 23.2). For those not running a
distro with a dev snapshot package of w3m-el, building form the latest
version should work fine with emacs 23.

Tim

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