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Michael G Schwern skribis 2005-05-20 14:08 (-0700): > "Is there a good command line web browser?" Browsing with a command line is a hell of a job. I prefer a full screen character based interface that does useful things just after I release a key. > "Yeah, use links." Yeah, use w3m. > "I've used lynx, it sucks." I've used links, it sucks. > How do I copy text from links? For some reason this is the only command line > application that refuses to allow me to highlight and copy anything. GRAH! Well, gpm and xterms work in the same way. If something takes over mouse control, you can access the selection and pasting thingies by holding shift. This hate shouldn't be directed at links, because all terminal based full screen interfaces that have mouse control work like this, because it's not the application that handles this. It's the terminal. > So even though links' rendering is superior I'm stuck using lynx. w3m's rendering is even better, IMO. It has several other things that I like better than links's way of doing the same things, so my default terminal based browser is w3m now, not links or lynx anymore. In w3m you can disable the mouse stuff. (Short guide to not hating w3m the first minute you try it: access the options, and enable frames rendering, disable mouse support, enable displaying of link urls, enable cookies. Oh, and if graphics in a terminal freak you out, disable those too.) Juerd -- http://convolution.nl/maak_juerd_blij.html http://convolution.nl/make_juerd_happy.html http://convolution.nl/gajigu_juerd_n.html
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