Re: mime-w3m not loaded automatically

[Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>]

on Fri Jul 15 2011, "Herbert J. Skuhra" <hskuhra-AT-fastmail.fm> wrote:

> 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.

Well, you have to compile the .texi file first.

But, suit yourself, and good luck with it.  I had hoped installing WL
would be that simple for me but it turned out that it wasn't.  The four
packages that comprise it each have fairly complicated elisp code
(APEL-/FLIM-/SEMI-/WL-MK) that does the installation.  Do you think the
person that wrote it wasted all that coding effort when something much
simpler could have done the job?

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Dave Abrahams
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