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Matt Armstrong <matt@lickey.com> writes:

> ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:
> 
>> Matt Armstrong <matt@lickey.com> writes:
>> 
>>> When mm-display-external decides that a mailcap entry needs a
>>> terminal, it unconditionally fires off "xterm".  There are two
>>> problems:
>>> 
>>> 1) It tries to run the xterm even if window-system is nil.
>>> 
>>>    My mailcap has text/html being shown with lynx.  If I'm running
>>>    emacs within an xterm, shouldn't emacs just temporarily shell out
>>>    to lynx?
>> 
>> I've fixed it in the Gnus CVS. term.el is used for running lynx.
> 
> Good idea.  Now I have two more problems.  :-)
> 
> 1) The new term.el stuff is a little buggy.  If it shows html, it
>    launches lynx (actually w3m) in a buffer called *display* but does
>    not make *display* visible, so it stays burried below the empty
>    *Article* buffer.
> 
>    When I switch to the *display* buffer, I see the html, but when I
>    quit w3m I'm left with a dead *display* buffer.  Maybe it should
>    switch back to the *Article* buffer?  Or kill the *display* buffer?
> 
>    When I switch to the *Summary* buffer, things are broken.  I can't
>    select the next article -- it starts raising errors related to the
>    *Article* buffer.  I know this is a bad bug report -- I can narrow
>    it down when I have more time if needed.

Fixed.

ShengHuo