Subject: bug#25395: 25.1; Emacs/W3 crashes on every url with elisp error (void-variable w3--args)

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2017 13:41:58 -0500

Glenn Morris wrote:

> w3 is not part of Emacs or GNU ELPA. Please report your issue to whoever
> maintains w3. (You might want to switch to eww, which is part of Emacs.)

I'm sorry, apparently it is in GNU ELPA.
(I get confused by the things that are maintained as externals in elpa.git).
Still, doesn't seem actively maintained, based on
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/elpa.git/?h=externals/w3