The 8.0.x versions are reserved for the remaining bugs while new
features will be in 8.1.0, i.e. better HTML support is on my
radar for now.

The new homepage http://www.nongnu.org/viewmail/ should be
refreshed by Savannah in the next few hours.  Kind of a road map
can be found in the TODO file which can be browsed at launchpad
http://codebrowse.launchpad.net/%7Ehack-robf/viewmail/trunk/files

Have fun,
Robert.

I'm going to recommend using VM 8.x with the emacs-w3m Info
manual and to remove vm-w3m.el in the emacs-w3m CVS repository.
Here is a patch to vm-8.1.0-devo-455 to make it synch with the
latest (the last) vm-w3m.el in emacs-w3m:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
--- vm-w3m.el~  2007-05-31 22:11:05 +0000
+++ vm-w3m.el   2007-06-01 02:59:02 +0000
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ;;; vm-w3m.el --- additional functions to make VM use emacs-w3m for HTML mails

-;; Copyright (C) 2003 Katsumi Yamaoka
+;; Copyright (C) 2003, 2005, 2006 Katsumi Yamaoka

 ;; This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@

 ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 ;; along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-;; Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307,
-;; USA.
+;; Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
+;; 02110-1301, USA.

 ;;; Commentary:

@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@

 (defvar vm-message-pointer)
 (defvar vm-mode-map)
+(defvar vm-w3m-mode-map)
 (defvar w3m-minor-mode-map)

 (defcustom vm-w3m-display-inline-images t
@@ -64,6 +65,15 @@
   :type '(choice (regexp :tag "Regexp")
                 (const :tag "All URLs are safe" nil)))

+(defcustom vm-w3m-use-w3m-minor-mode-map t
+  "Say whether to use emacs-w3m command keys in VM presentation buffers.
+Set this variable to nil if you don't want vm-w3m to override any VM
+commend keys.  If it is non-nil, you will not be able to use some VM
+command keys, which are bound to emacs-w3m commands defined in the
+`w3m-minor-mode-command-alist' variable."
+  :group 'w3m
+  :type 'boolean)
+
 (eval-and-compile
   (or (featurep 'xemacs) (>= emacs-major-version 21)
       (defvar vm-w3m-mode-map nil
@@ -146,7 +156,8 @@
        (delete-char -1)
        (add-text-properties
         start end
-        (nconc (vm-w3m-local-map-property)
+        (nconc (if vm-w3m-use-w3m-minor-mode-map
+                   (vm-w3m-local-map-property))
                ;; Put the mark meaning that this part was
                ;; inlined by emacs-w3m.
                '(text-rendered-by-emacs-w3m t)))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Best regards,

Robert
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Robert.

My thanks also for all the work you have done on vm!
I went to your site and tried it out.  Here are some notes:

I downloaded the 8.0 version from your site,
http://www.nongnu.org/viewmail/, into a temporary working area:

We are running RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 with xemacs packages.

I read your INSTALL/README and I configured it with:

./configure --with-xemacs --prefix=/usr/share

I did the 'make' and that seemed fine except for bdb.  I noticed
your INSTALL did not include a 'make install' -- I went ahead
and did it anyway (okay?), it installed files to:

/usr/share/xemacs/site-packages/lisp/vm

I did not change any of my xemacs or vm startup file.  I restarted
vm and it seemed to work fine.  The only 'visible' difference I
noticed were some different fonts/colors in the Summary.

I thought it would be easy to get some version confirmation just
to make sure I am actually running your stuff... Is there a command
I can give?

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        Oops!  After sending the last message I found out where
the version was, right on the status bar at the bottom of
the window -- pretty sneaky!

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X-Mailer: VM 8.0.0-453 under XEmacs 21.4.21 (i686-pc-linux)

or something similar.

You could also M-x find-function vm-session-initialization RET
and find (require 'vm-rfaddons) 19 lines below.

Robert

Robert.