LUV: Making your own WWW page with XEmacs

Making your own WWW page with XEmacs

Index

Getting XEmacs
Installing XEmacs
Running XEmacs
Creating your WWW page
Viewing your WWW page
Using the W3 package

Getting XEmacs

ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/xemacs/

Necessary files

README
README.executables
xemacs-19.11-common.tar.gz
xemacs-19.11-i486-unknown-linux-?.tar.gz (there are 2 choices - athena or athena3d)

If you want to view the inlined images with the W3 package, you'll need to get hold of the netpbm (previously pbmplus) utilities.

Installing XEmacs

As in the README.executables file:
For the below example, PREFIX=/usr/local (or /opt or /usr or even $HOME, depending upon where you install new software)

	cd $PREFIX
	tar xzf ..../xemacs-19.11-common.tar.gz
	tar xzf ..../xemacs-19.11-i486-unknown-linux-athena3d.tar.gz

	cd bin
	mv i486-unknown-linux/* .
	rmdir i486-unknown-linux

Running XEmacs

xemacs &

Essential Keys

Note - `C' means the Control key, and `M' means the Meta key, which is Alt on a PC keyboard.

C-a: Start of line
C-e: End of line
C-v: Page down
M-v: Page up
C-x C-c: Exit Emacs
C-x C-f: Open a file
C-x C-s: Save current buffer
C-x: Switch to another buffer
C-x C-b: List all buffers
C-x k: Kill a buffer
C-x 1: Get rid of all other windows (not ``screens'')
C-h k: Help on a key
C-h b: Show all current keybindings
C-h m: Help on current mode

Creating your WWW page

If you :

make a subdir from your home dir called public_html
call your home page index.html

other people need only refer to http://www.foo.bar.au/~johnc/ to access your home page.

	cd
	mkdir public_html

Example of index.html:

<html> <head> <title John H. Citizen, esq.</title> </head> <body> <h1>John H. Citizen, esq. </h1> <p> This is my home page. <p> Here's a picture of me : <img src="me.gif"> <p> <hr> <p> This is an example for a talk given to the <a href="http://www.luv.asn.au/luv/"> Linux Users of Victoria</a> at the October 1994 meeting. <p> <hr> <p> Click <a href="other.html">here</a> to read about something else. <body> <html>

Viewing your WWW page

Type M-x w3-open-local and give the filename index.html.
If you get the error ppmdither not found turn off Color Dithering on the WWW submenu of the Options menu.
The middle button follows links.
Press q when you are finished.

Using the W3 package

Useful things to know while using this package to travel the web :

The k key saves the address of the currently viewed page into the kill ring, so you can paste it into your home page source (or anywhere else).
The s key views the HTML source of the current document, so you can see how it works
The a key adds the current page to your Hotlist, so you can access it quickly next time you want to go there.
The H key brings up your hotlist. (The hotlist is also available as a submenu of the ``Navigate'' menu).
C-o lets you enter a new URL to view.
The o key lets you view some local HTML (like on the previous slide)

If you have to use a proxy server, make sure you set the following environment variables before starting XEmacs (the example applies at Monash University) :

export http_proxy="http://www.monash.edu.au/"
export ftp_proxy="http://www.monash.edu.au/"
export gopher_proxy="http://www.monash.edu.au/"
export wais_proxy="http://www.monash.edu.au/"
export file_proxy="http://www.monash.edu.au/"