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Date:      Sat, 12 Jan 2002 03:03:28 -0600
From:      "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1011258211.63c01f@mired.org>
To:        dochawk@psu.edu
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: command line web browsers 
Message-ID:  <15423.64480.633938.960395@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <104474161@toto.iv>

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dochawk@psu.edu types:
> parv provided,
> > w3m. it handles frames, tables, images (yes images) etc. just fine.
> I tried w3m for a few days, and it drove me nuts, leading me back to 
> lynx.  Too many crashes (I've managed to crash lynx twice in seven 
> years), the use of frames left too little of the window to read the 
> important parts,  and I couldn't launch external copies to follow links 
> like I do with lynx.

Gee, it hasn't crashed on me in *ages*. I have it set to not
autorender framed pages, which may be part of the problem.

It can launch external copies of itself. Just set the external browser
to something appropriate, like "xterm +sb -sl 0 -e w3m".  Even better
- and the reason I switched - is that it has three external browsers,
so I can have it launch a graphical browser to follow a link, or view
a page that's poorly written.

I still miss the numbered links, though. If lynx can do multiple
external browsers, I might switch back.

	<mike
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