Tech: w3m problems

Subject: RE: Tech: w3m problems
From: Joe_F
Date: 11 Sep 06 - 09:03 PM

Becky: So I can. Amazing! I can even search backward.

I have only recently acquired Firefox (so recently that I had even gotten its name the wrong way around). Does it allude to Judges 15? ObSongs:

When Samson set my brush afire
To spoil the Timnites barley,
I made my point for Leicestershire
And left Philistia early.
-- Kipling (TTTO "The Vicar of Bray", presumably)

Subject: RE: Tech: w3m problems
From: mack/misophist
Date: 11 Sep 06 - 09:21 AM

In the great debate between ve and emacs, I find myself siding with vim; or even kate. Or envy or elvis. Anything less complex than emacs.

Subject: RE: Tech: w3m problems
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 11:26 PM

Joe, you can search a thread with Firefox, use Ctrl-F (or the Edit menu) to get the Find toolbar at the bottom of your screen.

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: Tech: w3m problems
From: Joe_F
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 11:21 PM

Sigh. I've given up & retreated to Foxfire. Having to use the bloody trackball, not being able to search a thread, and not being able to use my sig routine are lesser annoyances than always being a GUEST and not being able to post texts without their coming out double-spaced.

Of course, nobody else here uses a sig routine; but I tend to think of the Forum as the monster that sucked all the juice out of rec.music.folk, so it was nice to be able to pretend, to some extent, that I was still posting on a newsgroup.

Subject: RE: Tech: w3m problems
From: GUEST,Joe_F
Date: 03 Jan 05 - 09:21 AM

Thanks for your comments. I know I am weird; I am one of those dinosaurs who want the whole world to be in an Emacs window.

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Subject: RE: Tech: w3m problems
From: mack/misophist
Date: 02 Jan 05 - 03:05 PM

After learning all those emacs commands, it makes sense that you would want to use them but...

Subject: RE: Tech: w3m problems
From: MudGuard
Date: 02 Jan 05 - 10:54 AM

Btw, Lynx, another text browser, does not have that cookie problem as you can see - I write this message with Lynx.

Subject: RE: Tech: w3m problems
From: MudGuard
Date: 02 Jan 05 - 10:47 AM

I just tested it - it is possible to log in (after login, I see the "you have xx messages" at the top of the page), but whatever I do after that, the login is lost.

My guess: one of the cookies uses .mudcat.org as domain (the other two use www.mudcat.org). Probably w3m does not recognize the .mudcat.org cookie should be sent with the requests, thus the mudcat does not recognize the login any longer.

I think the .mudcat.org cookie comes from the time when there were lots of servers at mudcat.org ...

Maybe Jeff can change the cookie to have www.mudcat.org as domain.

Subject: RE: Tech: w3m problems
From: Amos
Date: 02 Jan 05 - 10:44 AM

Joe:

Sorry =-- this is only the second time I've heard of it.

I am not sure why using emacs is of great value -- if you were willing to forego that attribute, there are new releases of Foxfire and Mozilla available you might like.

A

Subject: Tech: w3m problems
From: GUEST,Joe_F
Date: 02 Jan 05 - 10:28 AM

Does anyone else use w3m to read the Mudcat? I recently acquired it & have found it somewhat clunky but on the whole a great blessing in that it allows me to forget about the bloody trackball & use Emacs commands for moving around & posting. However:

(1) My cookie does not see it; I am always a guest when I post.

(2) It doubles every keyed newline in my postings.

If there is by chance a w3m guru in this company, I would be grateful for advice.

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