Re: Searching for program: no such file or directory, w3m

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Mon, May 12 2008, Óscar Fuentes wrote:

> While displaying some e-mail messages, gnus shows
>
> Searching for program: no such file or directory, w3m
>
> and this on the *Messages* buffer:
>
> mm-inline-text-html-render-with-w3m-standalone: Searching for program:
> no such file or directory, w3m
>
> I'm using Gnus 5.13 on Emacs GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.0.2195)
> of 2008-03-21
>
> I have no references to w3m on .emacs or .gnus.el.
>
> This only happens after some time of using Emacs. If I start a new Emacs
> session, Gnus shows the message correctly.

I don't have an idea why it happens only sometimes, unless your Emacs
can find the w3m binary when loading mm-decode, but not later when
displaying the article.

On 2008-03-02, I've changed `mm-text-html-renderer' to prefer w3m if
available:

	* mm-decode.el (mm-text-html-renderer): Prefer w3m over w3.  Fall back
	to nil, instead of html2text.

This was synced to Emacs on 2008-03-10, so your Emacs also contains
it:

(defcustom mm-text-html-renderer
  (cond ((executable-find "w3m")
	 (if (locate-library "w3m")
	     'w3m
	   'w3m-standalone))
	((executable-find "links") 'links)
	((executable-find "lynx") 'lynx)
	((locate-library "w3") 'w3)
	((locate-library "html2text") 'html2text)
	(t nil))
[...]

Maybe showing us the backtrace might help.  Set `debug-on-error' to t
(M-x toggle-debug-on-error RET), repeat the error and post the
backtrace.

Bye, Reiner.
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