Re: Gnus not showing article

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

Robert Epprecht <epprecht@sunweb.ch> writes:

> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>
>> Robert Epprecht <epprecht@sunweb.ch> writes:
>>
>>> I'm running actual CVS Gnus in GNU Emacs 20.7.2 on a Linux text console.  
>>               ^^^^^^
>>               current :-)
>
> Oops, I'm not a native speaker ;-)
> Thought you could say that [searching dictionary]... can't you?

Actual == real.  So an actual Gnus version would be something which
released, as opposed to a hypothetical version which people only talk
about.

>>> Quite often when I follow mailinglist discussions I enter an article
>>> and see...  nothing.  Why?
>>
>> Maybe Gnus is trying to display the text/html part but you don't have
>> W3 installed?
>
> Yes, that's probably the case.
> (My attempt to install W3 failed last time, I'll try again).
>
> I'm a bit confused about W3 and Emacs/W3 (hope I got the names right)
> Which one do I want for the text console and GNU Emacs 20.7?

There's only one Emacs/W3 and it goes by the name of W3 :-)
I guess w3-4.0pre46 (or some other number after pre) would be the
right one for Emacs 20.x.

>>  Hm.  What happens when you hit `K b' on the message?
>> Can you then click on the other alternative and have that shown?
>
> Yes, that works fine, thank you.
>
> When I select the alternative I get 
> 'Displaying gnome-help-browser '/tmp/emm.2663yF/mm.266E9L'...'
> Looks as if my (Debian) installation is broken somehow, as I do
> not use Gnome (but had tried it once).

Maybe you can do dpkg --purge on the gnome packages, that will delete
the config files, too.

If you put something like the following in ~/.mailcap, Emacs ought to
use Netscape:

    text/html; netscape %s

>> But I think that Gnus should do something useful even without this.

It's now clear that this is an issue outside of Gnus' control.  After
all, Gnus can't know that you have gnome-help-browser in your .mailcap
or mail.cap even though that program doesn't exist.

kai
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