From: David Haller <gentoo@dhaller.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Lynx, Links, or Elinks?
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 23:49:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111209224912.GA27075@grusum.endjinn.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EE26935.5070209@hfigge.myfqdn.de>
Hello,
On Fri, 09 Dec 2011, Hartmut Figge wrote:
>Philip Webb:
>>Lynx : I've been using it daily since 1996 .
>
>I have used it during my new installation on x86_64 to read the handbook
>of Gentoo. Problem was, that the lines there were too long to fit into
>the 80x24 window on console.
>
>The lines were truncated and i had to guess what would be displayed
>without truncation. ;) Maybe there is a way of horizontal scrolling
>which i had not found.
links uses [] for horizontal scrolling. I also like how it handles
tables. But: I recommend to install all four (or at least lynx, links
and w3m), as all have shortcomings/quirks and advantages (e.g. when
dumping html as text results vary and with what options you can "tune"
the result).
HTH,
-dnh
--
"I'm nobody's puppet!" -- Rygel XIV
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-10 7:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-09 11:38 [gentoo-user] Lynx, Links, or Elinks? Pandu Poluan
2011-12-09 12:27 ` Lavender
2011-12-09 12:44 ` [gentoo-user] " Mariusz Ceier
2011-12-09 13:04 ` Willie WY Wong
2011-12-09 14:09 ` James Broadhead
2011-12-09 15:28 ` Paul Hartman
2011-12-09 19:11 ` Philip Webb
2011-12-09 20:01 ` [gentoo-user] " Hartmut Figge
2011-12-09 22:49 ` David Haller [this message]
2011-12-10 12:36 ` [gentoo-user] " luis jure
2011-12-10 23:13 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2011-12-12 9:21 ` Aljosha Papsch
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