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emacs-w3m configuration with latest VM and Emacs

Asked by Sridhar Boovaraghavan on 2010-09-10

I am running the latest emacs trunk from bzr.

I also have the latest VM code.

I am trying to make vm-w3m work.

My emacs-w3m (retrieved from CVS) configuration is:

(require 'w3m-ems)

I am told to load this file and the remaining magic will be taken care of.

When I do, I get the following error message:

load: Symbol's value as variable is void: w3m-cid-retrieve-function-alist

Thanks,
Sridhar

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Tim Cross (tcross) said : #1

There are a couple of things to check.

1. Make sure w3m works. The variable w3m-cid-retrieve-function-alist is defined in w3m.el. If VM is unable to find the files for w3m, this could explain the problem.

Run M-x w3m and check w3m is working within emacs

2. Did you remember to build vm with the w3m library? When you run configure for VM you need to include the --with-other-files as documented in the INSTALL file. For example, on my system, I run

./configure --with-other-dirs=/"usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/w3m;/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/lisp"

(note that I build with BOTH w3m and BBDB, hence the two dirs in my list)

Verify this by checking that the output from configure has something like

checking otherdirs... ("/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/w3m" "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/lisp")

Let us know if you have done all of the above and it still does not work.

Sridhar Boovaraghavan (sridhar-ml) said : #2

Hi,

Thanks for the answer and sorry for the delay in my response.

With the information that you provided, I traced it down to two issues.

Because of http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/emacs-w3m#toc14, I had used (require 'w3m-ems) instead of (require 'w3m-load) in my w3m configuration. Maybe something has changed in more recent emacsen (original article was for emacs ~23), but that didn't work. Also because of this, I had changed the vm-w3m line that loaded w3m to w3m-ems.

When I went back to the standard, things work well now.

Only thing is a message in the *Messages* buffer:

Loading vm-w3m...
Image conversion failed (code `4')
Loading vm-w3m...done

Is this important?

Thanks,
Sridhar

Uday Reddy (reddyuday) said : #3

I too have seen the "Image conversion failed" message occasionally. But, as far as I could tell, nothing is going wrong.