Re: w3m-process-sentinel (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)

[Leo <sdl.web@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2007-09-03 12:10 +0100, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:
>>>>>> In [emacs-w3m : No.09598] Leo wrote:
>
>> With `browse-url-browser-function' set to `w3m-browse-url', `(browse-url
>> "news:gmane.emacs.devel";)' returns error. See the backtrace:
>
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
>>   string-match("^image/" nil)
>
> It is because emacs-w3m (in reality, w3m) failed to fetch a
> newsgroup.  The most likely cause is that you have not set the
> NNTPSERVER environment variable.  To do that in Emacs is:
>
> (setenv "NNTPSERVER" "news.gmane.org")

Thanks.

> In addition, please use the latest emacs-w3m from CVS.  I've made a
> workaround right now so that it may regard news contents (which w3m
> returns for news:* urls) as text/html.

Indeed, it works really well. Thanks for this new feature.

> (I must confess that this is the first time I tried reading news with
> emacs-w3m. ;-)

Same here ;)

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