Re: gnus to activate links

[prad]

William Gardella <gardellawg@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Prad,
>
> prad <prad@towardsfreedom.com> writes:
>
>> i am unclear on how to get gnus to activate hyperlinks - some times it
>> happens (as with emails and gmane posts), sometimes it doesn't (as with
>> an rss feed i'm using).
>>
>> i can always go view in a browser, but it would be nice if i didn't have
>> to.
>>
>> what can i do to always have links activated?
>
> If you are having problems with some specific articles/groups but not
> all, you might try changing renderers, e.g. customize
> mm-text-html-renderer to try one of the w3m renderers or, if you are
> already using one, try `shr', the built in gnus renderer.  Sometimes
> I've found that formatting won't show up as desired with one or the
> other.
>
excellent! thank you william!
turns out i didn't even need to use one of the others - i just needed to
install w3m properly:

$ sudo aptitude install w3m-el w3m-img
and
restart emacs!

it all works now!

-- 
in friendship,
prad