Gnus 5.10.6: attempts to use w3m even when there isn't any

Gnus 5.10.6: attempts to use w3m even when there isn't any

[Miles Bader]

w3m-command is nil

[Especially silly considering most people probably don't have w3m installed]

Here's a stack-backtrace:

   Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
     call-process-region(1 166 nil "/tmp/emacsEKvRTi" t nil "-T" "text/html" "-halfdump")
     byte-code(...)
     (defvar w3m-accept-japanese-characters (byte-code ...))
     require(w3m)
     mm-setup-w3m()
     mm-inline-text-html-render-with-w3m((#<buffer  *mm*<3>> ("text/html" (charset . "us-ascii")) 7bit nil nil nil nil nil))
     mm-inline-text-html((#<buffer  *mm*<3>> ("text/html" (charset . "us-ascii")) 7bit nil nil nil nil nil))
     mm-display-inline((#<buffer  *mm*<3>> ("text/html" (charset . "us-ascii")) 7bit nil nil nil nil nil))
     mm-display-part((#<buffer  *mm*<3>> ("text/html" (charset . "us-ascii")) 7bit nil nil nil nil nil))
     byte-code(...)
     gnus-mime-display-alternative(((#<buffer  *mm*<2>> ("text/plain" ... ...) 7bit nil nil nil nil nil) (#<buffer  *mm*<3>> ("text/html" ...) 7bit nil nil nil nil nil)) nil nil 1)
     gnus-mime-display-part((#("multipart/alternative" 0 21 (start nil from "bobehrlich@comcast.net" buffer #<buffer  *mm*> boundary "------------060006050001040700010704")) (#<buffer  *mm*<2>> ("text/plain" ... ...) 7bit nil nil nil nil nil) (#<buffer  *mm*<3>> ("text/html" ...) 7bit nil nil nil nil nil)))
     gnus-display-mime()
     gnus-article-prepare-display()
     gnus-article-prepare(1112128 nil)
     gnus-summary-display-article(1112128 nil)
     gnus-summary-select-article(nil force)
     gnus-summary-show-article(nil)
     call-interactively(gnus-summary-show-article)

Thanks,

-Miles
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Re: Gnus 5.10.6: attempts to use w3m even when there isn't any

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:

> w3m-command is nil
>
> [Especially silly considering most people probably don't have w3m installed]

[...]

>      require(w3m)
>      mm-setup-w3m()
>      mm-inline-text-html-render-with-w3m((#<buffer  *mm*<3>> ("text/html" (charset . "us-ascii")) 7bit nil nil nil nil nil))

This should only happen if `mm-inline-text-html-renderer' or
`mm-text-html-renderer' are set to
`mm-inline-text-html-render-with-w3m', which shouldn't happen unless
one has set those to that.  I think.  :-)

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: Gnus 5.10.6: attempts to use w3m even when there isn't any

[Katsumi Yamaoka]

>>>>> In <m3ekpalr72.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>
>>>>>	Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:

> Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:

>> w3m-command is nil
>>
>> [Especially silly considering most people probably don't have w3m installed]

> [...]

>>      require(w3m)
>>      mm-setup-w3m()
>>      mm-inline-text-html-render-with-w3m((#<buffer  *mm*<3>> ("text/html" (charset . "us-ascii")) 7bit nil nil nil nil nil))

> This should only happen if `mm-inline-text-html-renderer' or
> `mm-text-html-renderer' are set to
> `mm-inline-text-html-render-with-w3m', which shouldn't happen unless
> one has set those to that.  I think.  :-)

It is hard to imagine there's emacs-w3m installed without w3m.
But that's okay.  Does the following patch help?

--- mm-decode.el~	2004-05-20 06:13:13 +0000
+++ mm-decode.el	2004-05-23 22:34:46 +0000
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
 
 (defcustom mm-text-html-renderer
   (cond ((locate-library "w3") 'w3)
-	((locate-library "w3m") 'w3m)
+	((and (locate-library "w3m") (executable-find "w3m") 'w3m))
 	((executable-find "w3m") 'w3m-standalone)
 	((executable-find "links") 'links)
 	((executable-find "lynx") 'lynx)
-- 
Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>

Re: Gnus 5.10.6: attempts to use w3m even when there isn't any

[Miles Bader]

Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:
> It is hard to imagine there's emacs-w3m installed without w3m.

Hmmm, that seems to the be the case on my system though -- I think I
tried w3m-el at some point, didn't like it, and uninstalled the debian
package for `w3m', but the elisp stuff was in /usr/local so I didn't
bother.

> But that's okay.  Does the following patch help?

It looks reasonable to me, but I must admit I can't remember exactly
where that html article was, to test it!

-Miles
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and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure,
and demoralizing.  On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the
future of the world depends." -Oscar Wilde, "The Soul of Man Under Socialism"

Re: Gnus 5.10.6: attempts to use w3m even when there isn't any

[Katsumi Yamaoka]

>>>>> In <87smdqda7y.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp>
>>>>>	Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote:

> Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:
>> It is hard to imagine there's emacs-w3m installed without w3m.

> Hmmm, that seems to the be the case on my system though -- I think I
> tried w3m-el at some point, didn't like it, and uninstalled the debian
> package for `w3m', but the elisp stuff was in /usr/local so I didn't
> bother.

Hm, the package named `w3m-el' is very old.  It is now much
improved and renamed to `emacs-w3m'[1].

>> But that's okay.  Does the following patch help?

> It looks reasonable to me, but I must admit I can't remember exactly
> where that html article was, to test it!

I've installed it in both the trunk and the v5-10 branch.

[1] http://emacs-w3m.namazu.org/
-- 
Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>

Re: Gnus 5.10.6: attempts to use w3m even when there isn't any

[TSUCHIYA Masatoshi]

>> On Mon, 24 May 2004 08:18:16 +0900
>> yamaoka@jpl.org (Katsumi Yamaoka) said as follows:

>Hm, the package named `w3m-el' is very old.  It is now much improved
>and renamed to `emacs-w3m'[1].

Because of historical reason, the Debian package of emacs-w3m is named
`w3m-el', which is well maintained and is not old.  For more detail,
please check http://packages.debian.org/w3m-el.

-- 
TSUCHIYA Masatoshi

Re: Gnus 5.10.6: attempts to use w3m even when there isn't any

[Katsumi Yamaoka]

>>>>> In <87k6z23btg.fsf@namazu.org> TSUCHIYA Masatoshi wrote:

>>Hm, the package named `w3m-el' is very old.  It is now much improved
>>and renamed to `emacs-w3m'[1].

> Because of historical reason, the Debian package of emacs-w3m is named
> `w3m-el', which is well maintained and is not old.  For more detail,
> please check http://packages.debian.org/w3m-el.

Oh, I had to know it.  Thanks.
-- 
Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>