Demo of w3m integrated with emacs

Following post about w3m in emacs for searching for help demo was recorded, using screen capture tools described in previous post.



swf with KDE interface

Emacs Config: Search for Unix function on Open Group site

At the moment I am developing in C, often referencing to Open Group Unix specification from their site for description of networking *nix functions.

To simplify searching, Ctrl-F1 accelerator have been added in .emacs for searching keyword in Open Group index.

Corresponding part of my emacs config is:

%<--------
;; Manually edited part
(require 'w3m-load)
(setq browse-url-browser-function 'w3m-browse-url)

(defun browse-url-other-buffer(x)
"browse url wrapper; switches to other buffer; than browses"
  (interactive)
  (progn
    (switch-to-buffer-other-window(other-buffer))
    (browse-url x)))

(defun lookup-producer (x)
"used to produce function for looking up the
word under cursor in a browser."
 (interactive)
  (browse-url-other-buffer
  (concat x
   (thing-at-point 'word))))

(defun search-current-word-opengroup()
  "search current word definition in opengroup UNIX spec"
  (interactive)
  (mapcar (lambda(x) (lookup-producer x) ) 
             (list "http://www.opengroup.org/cgi-bin/kman?value=")))

(global-set-key (kbd "< C-f1>") 'search-current-word-opengroup)
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prerequisites:

w3m have to be installed.
get tar.gz from site of w3m development, gunzip; tar -xf.

Install process is your configuration specific.
Read README from root of untared directory.

For me (emacs 21.2.4 under cygwin, winXP) installation was:
./configure
./make install