Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 89499
Bad xemacs documentation
Last modified: 2015-01-07 19:04:44 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Opera/7.10 (Linux 2.4.20-9 i686; U) [en] Description of problem: The JDE documentation is busted. The links for the JDE user's guide table of contents (given in the URL), all point to the same place. Trying to read the JDE users' guide doc within xemacs results in the error "Wrong type argument: char-or-string-p, 8482". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xemacs-21.4.12-6 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Additional info:
Works fine for me. Fire up a new xemacs session % xemacs -q Type M-x jde-mode From the menubar choose JDE -> Help -> JDEE Users Guide and the documentation appears in mozilla. Of course the sidebar needs the jdk plugin to work, and admittedly the links to the JDE homepage seems stale and the links to the source code aren't right, but otherwise it displays fine for me?
The links to the source files in the main page should get fixed in the next package build, however the link in the jar file on the toc is harder to fix since the java source doesn't seen to be include if I'm not mistaken.
You could call up the JDE docs within XEmacs fine because you set your browser to be Mozilla. My XEmacs is set up to run W3, and bombs out as I described when I try to call up the JDE docs. The sidebar should not need Java to work. If you run, say, Konqueror with Java disabled you will see contents links as ordinary HTML. This is because they ARE ordinary HTML: they are plain vanilla HREFs. The problem is that jde-ug-toc. html's links are broken: they point nowhere. Here is a sample: <td><a href="jde-ug-content.html#" target="content">Introduction</a> </td></tr><tr> <td><a href="jde-ug-content.html#" target="content">Registering and Selecting a JDK</a></td></tr>tr> <td><a href="jde-ug-content.html#" target="content">Editing Java Source Files</a></td></tr> All the JDE User's Guide links point to "jde-ug-content.html#". That makes them useless. Contrast with the JDEBug user's Guide sidebar source.
I'll fix the broken section links in the JDE User Guide in the next package build. As to the problem with w3 - I'm afraid w3 contains too many bugs to be maintainable - so it is basically unsupported. If you really want to display html inside xemacs, then I recommend using w3m-el-xemacs, which uses w3m as its engine, and hence is also much quicker than w3. [I'll close the bug when the jde update is built.]
Links should be fixed in xemacs-21.4.12-10.
I reported this upstream too, so it should get fixed in the xemacs-packages sumo too one day.