On 11-Feb-09, at 4:11 AM, Pavel Dudrenov wrote:
A part from explicitly clicking on a link, I find it disturbing when a command causes some other program to open, and steal focus from emacs. At that point my brain switches in a different gear and causes me to get distracted from the problem at hand.
I agree and that is why by default the "lynx" text-only browser is used if it is available. That way the documentation appears in the terminal in which the REPL is running. I've been using this for a few days and its really very slick and fast!
What you guys are describing sounds really good and w3m is one way out of the small annoyance described above. But it would be nice if this thing fetches the contents of the wiki page, parses them, then displays the results in a temp buffer - kind of like what describe-function does. That might be the more emacs user friendly way to do it.
It shouldn't be too hard to add this feature to gambit.el .
Marc