This article will describe using w3m package which provides w3m buffer on emacs. The w3m is CUI browser.
Table of Contents
1 Install w3m
Install w3m with apt, yum or Homebrew.
$ sudo apt-get install -y w3m
2 Install w3m package
Install w3m-el package in Ubuntu. Install emacs-w3m package in MacOS .
Installing w3m package from source code is as below. w3m package will be installed to ${HOME}/share/emacs/site-lisp/w3m.
$ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.namazu.org:/storage/cvsroot co emacs-w3m
$ cd emacs-w3m
$ autoconf
$ ./configure --prefix=${HOME}
$ make all install
3 ${HOME}/.emacs
Add w3m directory to load-path.
(add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "~/share/emacs/site-lisp/w3m"))
Set encoding UTF-8.
(setq w3m-coding-system 'utf-8
w3m-file-coding-system 'utf-8
w3m-file-name-coding-system 'utf-8
w3m-input-coding-system 'utf-8
w3m-output-coding-system 'utf-8
w3m-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8)
Set browse-url-at-point to global key. This will open URL at the cursor.
(setq browse-url-browser-function 'w3m-browse-url) (autoload 'w3m-browse-url "w3m" "Ask a WWW browser to show a URL." t) (global-set-key "\C-xm" 'browse-url-at-point)
4 Key bindings
Key bindings is as below.
| q | Quit w3m |
| S | Open google search |
| R | Reload page |
| B | Go to previous page |
| N | Go to next page |
| a | Add page to bookmark |
| v | Show bookmark |
| [ | Go to next edit box |
| ] | Go to prev edit box |
| c | Show URL |
| E | Edit URL |
| G | Open URL with new session |