Re: mime-w3m not loaded automatically

["Herbert J. Skuhra" <hskuhra@fastmail.fm>]

On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:31:42 -0400
Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> wrote:
 
> on Thu Jul 14 2011, David Maus <dmaus-AT-ictsoc.de> wrote:
> 
> > At Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:45:30 -0400,
> > Dave Abrahams wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> on Thu Jul 14 2011, "Herbert J. Skuhra" <hskuhra-AT-fastmail.fm> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > instead of installing apel,flim,semi,emacs-w3m and wl by running
> >> > configure & make install I have placed all directories in ~/.emacs.d
> >> > and added the directories to the load-path.
> >>
> >> That won't work.
> >
> > Works perfectly:
> 
> Not in my experience.  It seems to work for a while, but WL (or apel,
> flim, or semi, or all of them --- I can't remember) contains some
> backward-compatibility elisp files that only get installed for older
> Emacsen.  If you just put them in the load-path they will get picked up
> instead of the more modern version in your Emacs installation and break
> other things.
> 
> Plus you won't get WL's icons or info that way ;-)

You only have to expand Info-default-directory-list (or
Info-directory-list?) and set wl-icon-directory.

Herbert