Re: Starting w3m: error

[Wolfgang Pfeiffer <pfeifferw tesionmail de>]

Meph,
after trying some more things:

> On Sep 30, 2001, 08:07 (-0700) Meph Istopheles wrote:

>   Wolfgang,
>
>   Ah, it's early here.  I see you're using cat.  I'm no w3m -- or
> cat, for that matter -- expert, but I wonder why you're piping it
> anyway when w3m would be the better choice of command.  Maybe I'm

I quit the pipe method now

> just thinking that catting a file through an app which is
> designed to display hypertext would be better just using the app
> in question.
>
>   Also, your command has ...-T text/html & I don't see any T
> option for w3m -- only t for setting tab width.  If that's what

.... man w3m:
--------------------------------------
[ ... ]

-T type
              specify content-type
[ ... ]
-------------------------------------

(it seems to be a rather new version I'm using, I'm not sure whether the
versions before had a manual .. this version now has even mouse-support
for clicking links ... :) ....)

problem seems, w3m is not documented very well, and I have to try (and
error) a lot to find out things ... :)


> you have in mind, perhaps it's just a matter of changing the case
> from T to t.

... changed the case to -t, and it didn't work (-T works to start w3m-en,
but it does not start w3m ...)

>
>   Either way, give it a shot....
>
>   Meph
>

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>
> > typing:
> > w3m-en file:///usr/doc/HTML/index.html
> > loads the file without problems ...

... which means: it loads the file *into* w3m-en
(thus starting w3m-en, which, until now, worked only when I tried to load
a file at the same time, because the default file, that w3m-en tries
to start when entering simply
w3m-en

doesen't exist, thus preventing w3m to load, and I didn't find til now the
place where to change the address for the default start-file ... .. I
don't remember having ever seen a program on Linux (except one or two
others perhaps) more poorly documented than w3m ... sorry to those, who
prefer this browser ...

Wolfgang

>
> > typing:
> > w3m file:///usr/doc/HTML/index.html
> >
> > gives me this error:
> > /usr/bin/w3m: params[${#params[ ]}]="$1": bad substitution
> > /usr/bin/w3m: ${params[ ]}: bad substitution
>
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