[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin A. Burton) writes:
> Knut Wannheden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I have a small comment regarding jde-help. I've seen that the
> > function jde-help-symbol makes use of the function
> > jde-help-find-javadoc which checks whether a certain url exists. It
> > does that by invoking the shell command wget. I think wget is a nice
> > utility but I think it would be even nicer to use the w3 package.
>
> w3 has performance issues. It would be better to toggle between wget/lynx. I
> have a lynx-mode.el if anyone is interested... http://relativity.yi.org/emacs
> <snip>
>
In my experience these performance issues are mainly concerning the
displaying (drawing) of the actual pages. But here it would only
check for the existence (like wget --spider).
Offtopic w3 related question: does anybody know of a X font that will
render tables and horizontal rules correctly (not make them show up as
boxes)? I know that I can change to the ascii equivalents, but that's
not what I was looking for.
--
knut
