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Date:      Sat, 02 Sep 2000 09:58:50 +0000
From:      rob <europax@home.com>
To:        igorr@crosswinds.net
Cc:        FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Why not XEmacs, after all?
Message-ID:  <39B0CF5A.5BD9E36@home.com>
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Igor Roboul wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 11:29:07AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > rob writes:
> > > Actually, I would like to have some sort of text based browser that runs
> > > in the console, but only if I can somehow configure it to start other
> > > apps based on mime type.  I would like to see how this works out for
> > > streaming mp3.
> >
> > Lynx will do that. In fact, it uses the same configuration file as
> > some of the GUI browsers (your mailcap file). I don't think w3m uses
> > mailcap files, but it might.
> But, Lynx does not support tables (Ok, it support tables but does not
> show it properly). There is yet another text based browser Links (not Lynx :-) )
> It supports tables and frames (as w3m does), but have a little different interface
> so text browser of my choice is w3m-ssl, but Netscape is not too bad too :-)
> Mozilla is TOO SLOOOW :-(((( And Galeon requires GNOME, which sucks :-)
> 
> --
> Igor Roboul, Unix System Administrator & Programmer @ sanatorium "Raduga",
> Sochi, Russia
> http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=304744
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I now have Lynx and w3m, and tried them out.  Its nice with no ads!  Is
it possible to configure either of them so that they spawn some external
program from a given mime type?  I read the manuals and didn't see
anything.  Thanks,  Rob.


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