From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RZHpb-0003Uj-S0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 07:58:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 65BE221C110; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 07:58:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from km30706.keymachine.de (ns.km30706.keymachine.de [87.118.116.62]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E95B21C110 for ; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 07:57:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 28409 invoked from network); 10 Dec 2011 08:55:57 +0100 Received: from dslb-092-075-227-121.pools.arcor-ip.net (HELO grusum.endjinn.de) (92.75.227.121) by km30706.keymachine.de with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 10 Dec 2011 08:55:57 +0100 Received: by grusum.endjinn.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 9F8F614E73; Fri, 9 Dec 2011 23:49:12 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 23:49:12 +0100 From: David Haller To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Lynx, Links, or Elinks? Message-ID: <20111209224912.GA27075@grusum.endjinn.de> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20111209191156.GA3107@ca.inter.net> <4EE26935.5070209@hfigge.myfqdn.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4EE26935.5070209@hfigge.myfqdn.de> Organization: What? User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: 50f715ce-07d4-496b-ba63-f26066809128 X-Archives-Hash: 76848a8816aa2065c11f34f0d9bf6458 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