Re: error in process sentinel: w3m-filter-stackexchange: Search failed: "^ </a>"

[Tatsuya Kinoshita <tats@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On April 28, 2019, [emacs-w3m:13387], moasenwood (at zoho.eu) wrote:
>             `emacs-w3m-version' 1.4.632 I can't
>             load a page like
>             <https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/34190/is-there-any-chemical-that-can-destroy-ptfe-or-teflon>,
>             I seem to get a SX specific error,
>             namely "error in process sentinel:
>             w3m-filter-stackexchange: Search
>             failed: "^	</a>"", and then "error in

Reproducible with the Debian testing version of w3m-el-snapshot
(2018-11-12).

The upstream GitHub repo seems fixed on 2019-04-11.

  - https://github.com/emacs-w3m/emacs-w3m/commit/4a78cd5dea4bacd97c03f3550811925cebd5222d

Workaround:
  - (setq w3m-use-filter nil)
  - disable w3m-filter-stackexchange by C-u M-x w3m-toggle-filtering
  - redefine w3m-filter-stackexchange
  - upgrade to the GitHub version (2019-04-11 or later)
  - downgrade to the Debian testing version of w3m-el (2017-01-10)
  - etc.

Thanks,
-- 
Tatsuya Kinoshita