RE: Configuring emacs/ilisp to work with w3

From: Tiago Maduro-Dias on Sunday, May 11, 2003 9:12 AM
> This isn't really a dev question but you'll probably be able 
> to help me.
> I have emacs configured to work with mozilla:
> 
> ;; browser configuration
> (setq browse-url-browser-function 'browse-url-netscape
> 	browse-url-netscape-program "mozilla")
> 
> It works perfectly.
> 
> But afterwards I installed w3 and I'm having trouble figuring out
> exactly how to redirect the hyperspec apropos help thing to w3 instead
> of the configured browser.
> 
> If anyone could show me how to configure it it would be very much
> obliged :).

I use a combination of IE and w3 on Emacs & MS Windows. Usually, I want to use IE (calling the hyperspec with F1), but sometimes I want to use w3 instead. I set up the following in order to use w3 (make sure the w3 directory is in your load-path first) to access the hyperspec from the Shift-F1 key:

(global-set-key [(shift f1)]
		'(lambda ()
		   (interactive)
               (require 'w3-auto)
		   (let ((browse-url-browser-function 'browse-url-w3)
			 (common-lisp-hyperspec-root "file://c:/usr/home/docs/Hyperspec/")
			 (common-lisp-hyperspec-symbol-table (concat common-lisp-hyperspec-root "Data/Map_Sym.txt"))
			 (hyperspec-prog "c:/usr/home/site/ilisp/extra/hyperspec"))
		     (load-library hyperspec-prog)
		     (common-lisp-hyperspec (thing-at-point 'symbol)))))

Note that you need to use the file://... syntax for the common-lisp-hyperspec-root variable but can not use it for the hyperspec-prog variable. Note also that I use global-set-key because I often want to access the hyperspec from inside a document that isn't a lisp source file. You may want to use an ilisp-specific binding instead.

Hope that helps. 

--
Bill Clementson

> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Tiago Maduro-Dias
> 
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