[ILUG] emacs and w3

[Aidan Kehoe]

 Ar an 3u la de mi 10, scriobh kevin lyda :

 > >  > w3-fetch its says no match found.  
 > > Hmm. I'm a heavy XEmacs user, but I really really dislike W3. There
 > > are some things that really didn't need to be written in Emacs Lisp,
 > > and a web browser is one of them. Would you write one in Perl?
 > 
 > hasn't that been done? 

I don't know. In addition to making everyone uncomfortable by using
and liking Emacs, I think there's a time and place for Perl, and most
of the time and most places don't qualify :-) . 

 > but yeah, i've used both tkweb and w3-mode, but they're kinda silly.
 > then again i last used w3-mode back in 1995 or 1996 so maybe it's much
 > better.  combined with something like webdav i could see it being a neat
 > way to edit html or even some cgi stuff.

Yeah, but proper integration with Mozilla is so easy it just isn't
worth it. 

(autoload 'browse-url-at-point "browse-url")
(global-set-key "\C-cl" 'browse-url-at-point)
(setq browse-url-browser-function 'browse-url-netscape)
(setq browse-url-netscape-command "~/bin/netscape-remote")

Mozilla is *so* much more capable, *so* much faster, and *so* much
closer to what everyone else in the world is using. But, I suppose, if
you don't have X, w3 _might_ be worth considering. 

 > obviously not as good as vi, yadda, yadda.  :)

Obviously--everyone knows that :-)

 > kevin, who didn't want to scare anyone with emacs compliments...

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