emacs-w3m with XEmacs 21.4.15 on Windows (native, not Cygwin)

["Schmitt, Christian (ext.)" <Christian.Schmitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
I installed emacs-w3m a couple of weeks ago and really like it.

One thing was quite annoying, though.

Whenever emacs-w3m renders a page that contains relative links they wind
up looking something like this:

http://some.server\and/a/path/name
(Note the backslash after the server name)

Today I got around to looking deeper into it, and I think
I found a solution. Please take a look at the diff
below (w3m.el is from emacs-w3m-1.3.90.tar.gz):

--- w3m.el.orig      Tue Apr 20 02:56:54 2004
+++ w3m.el     Thu Apr 22 11:16:18 2004
@@ -5023,7 +5023,10 @@
 
cygwin-mount-map-drive-hook-function
))
              (inhibit-file-name-operation 'expand-file-name)
              path)
-         (setq path (expand-file-name name base))
+      (let ((def-sep-char directory-sep-char))
+        (setq directory-sep-char ?/)
+        (setq path (expand-file-name name base))
+        (setq directory-sep-char def-sep-char))
          (if (string-match "\\`.:" path)
              (substring path (match-end 0))
            path)))

This patch works for me :-) I hope you find it useful.

Thanks for a great piece of software!


Cheers,
Christian Schmitt

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