5.15 Other variables

w3m-async-exec

Non-nil means execute the ‘w3m’ command asynchronously in Emacs process.

w3m-broken-proxy-cache

Set it to t if the proxy server seems not to work properly in caching. Note that this may be the double-edged sword; setting it to t will likely be harmful if the proxy server sends bad requests (e.g., not including the Host header, see RFC2616 section 14.23) to foreign servers when the ‘w3m’ command specifies the ‘no-cache’ directive. Also note that it may not be effective if you are using old ‘w3m’ command.

w3m-history-minimize-in-new-session

Non-nil means minimize copied history so that there’s only current page. This variable is effective when creating of the new session by copying (i.e., w3m-copy-buffer). The default value is nil.

w3m-history-reuse-history-elements

Non-nil means reuse the history element when re-visiting the page. Otherwise, a new history element will be created even if there are elements for the same url in the history.

Emacs-w3m used to operate as the case in which it is non-nil, however it sometimes brought about users’ dissatisfaction. For example, if a user visited the pages A -> B -> C -> B in order, performing BACK on the second B would let a user visit A. The reason why a user was taken to A rather than C is that the w3m-history variable only had the list (A B C) as a history and B was the current position at that time.

The default value for this variable is nil which allows the w3m-history variable to have the list (A B C B). Where contents of two B’s are the identical Lisp objects. So, too much wasting the Lisp resources will be avoided.

See the documentation for the variables w3m-history and w3m-history-flat for more information.

w3m-process-connection-type

Value for process-connection-type used when communicating with ‘w3m’.

w3m-process-modeline-format

Format used when displaying the progress of the external ‘w3m’ process. It shows a percentage of the data loaded from the web server.

w3m-show-current-title-in-buffer-tab

If non-nil, show the title strings in the buffers tab. It has no effect if your XEmacs does not support the gutter items.

w3m-input-url-provide-initial-content

If non-nil, provide an initial minibuffer content (if any) when entering a url. The default is nil. A url string is not worth editing in most cases since a url thing is generally a list of arbitrary letters, not a human readable one. So, we provide no initial content when prompting you for a url by default. But sometimes there will be a case to be convenient if you can modify the url string of [1]the link under the cursor or of [2]the current page. In that case, you can type the M-n key [1]once or [2]twice to fill the minibuffer with an initial content if you use Emacs 23 and up. Otherwise, set this variable to a non-nil value to always provide an initial content.

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