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- This is to announce the release of version .55beta of the emacs world
- wide web browser.
-
- This has some fairly large changes, but most of them won't be visible
- to the users.
-
- For those not familiar with w3-mode already, it is a hypertext browser
- written entirely in emacs-lisp. It runs under emacs 18, emacs 19,
- Lucid Emacs, and Epoch equally well. (Well, not equally, but close
- enough) It takes advantage of different features of each emacs.
- (Font/mouse support in lucid/epoch/emacs19, graphics support in epoch,
- etc)
-
- The browser can be ftped from:
- ftp://moose.cs.indiana.edu/pub/elisp/w3/w3.tar.z For the main files
- ftp://moose.cs.indiana.edu/pub/elisp/w3/extras.tar.z For support files
-
- The extras.tar.z file contains: ange-ftp, background, transparent,
- gopher, forms, and nntp lisp packages. (Other people wrote _MUCH_
- better gopher/ftp interfaces than I could hope to, so I use those)
-
- If you already have these files installed on your system, there is no
- need for you to get the extras.tar.z file.
-
- Once you have unpacked the w3.tar.z file in your lisp directory, you
- should be able to just edit the Makefile to point to where you want
- the lisp files installed, where your .emacs file is, and where emacs
- is located on your system. Then type 'make install' and it will add a
- few autoload statements to your .emacs and change your load-path
- slightly. (You can just type 'make w3' to just compile the lisp code
- if you want to make the changes to your .emacs yourself)
-
- Documentation on the emacs browser can be obtained from:
-
- http://cs.indiana.edu:80/elisp/w3/docs.html
-
- Please send me some email if you pick up this package, just so I can
- tell roughly how many people are using it.
-
- Also send mail if you find any files that cause w3 to break (already
- know of one that causes an infinite loop: try to avoid
- http://sipb.mit.edu:8001/afs/sipb/user/mcmullan/ht/sls.html if at all
- possible - the multiple nested lists cause the parser to freak right
- now, and I haven't had time to track it down).
-
- Happy Emacsing!
-
- -Bill Perry
-
- -- William M. Perry (wmperry@indiana.edu) --
- 'Who finds a thought that enables him to obtain a slightly deeper glimpse into
- the eternal secrets of nature has been given great grace.'
- - Albert Einstein
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