[gentoo-user] Lynx, Links, or Elinks?

[gentoo-user] Lynx, Links, or Elinks?

[Pandu Poluan]

As the subject says: Which text browser do you recommend?

( I just want to read some documentations in HTML. )

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Re:[gentoo-user] Lynx, Links, or Elinks?

[Lavender]

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At 2011-12-09 19:38:06,"Pandu Poluan" <pandu@poluan.info> wrote:
>As the subject says: Which text browser do you recommend?
>
>( I just want to read some documentations in HTML. )
>
I'm using lynx, I feel it is great ! Lynx is small but efficient, I think it is totally enough for your demand, :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Lynx, Links, or Elinks?

[Mariusz Ceier]

w3m,links and elinks. w3m and links as they support displaying images
under framebuffer, and elinks for it's javascript support.
If you don't need these features, any text browser is good for
browsing html documentation :)

On 9 December 2011 11:38, Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> wrote:
> As the subject says: Which text browser do you recommend?
>
> ( I just want to read some documentations in HTML. )
>
> Rgds,
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> FdS Pandu E Poluan
> ~ IT Optimizer ~
>
>  • LOPSA Member #15248
>  • Blog : http://pepoluan.tumblr.com
>  • Linked-In : http://id.linkedin.com/in/pepoluan
>

Re: [gentoo-user] Lynx, Links, or Elinks?

[Willie WY Wong]

On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 12:44:50PM +0000, Penguin Lover Mariusz Ceier squawked:
> w3m,links and elinks. w3m and links as they support displaying images
> under framebuffer, and elinks for it's javascript support.
> If you don't need these features, any text browser is good for
> browsing html documentation :)

Seconded. In addition, if you ever need to read East Asian characters,
there is a good extension to w3m called w3mmee which supports multibyte 
encoding formats (stuff like Big5, euc-JP etc). 

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Re: [gentoo-user] Lynx, Links, or Elinks?

[James Broadhead]

On 9 December 2011 12:44, Mariusz Ceier <mceier@gmail.com> wrote:
> w3m,links and elinks. w3m and links as they support displaying images
> under framebuffer, and elinks for it's javascript support.
> If you don't need these features, any text browser is good for
> browsing html documentation :)

Not too long ago, I was using elinks for the same reason, but found
that sites were complaining about the amount of js support, telling me
to upgrade :-(


Afterthought: it was actually the Oracle website where I was going to
get the jdk / documentation, which has gone back to being
fetch-restricted :-(  :-(  :-(

Re: [gentoo-user] Lynx, Links, or Elinks?

[Paul Hartman]

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 5:38 AM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> wrote:
> As the subject says: Which text browser do you recommend?
>
> ( I just want to read some documentations in HTML. )

In my experience, elinks has the best support for showing you
formatted, colorized, javascripted HTML in text console.

Re: [gentoo-user] Lynx, Links, or Elinks?

[Philip Webb]

111209 Pandu Poluan wrote:
> Which text browser do you recommend to read documentations in HTML.

Lynx : I've been using it daily since 1996 .

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[gentoo-user] Re: Lynx, Links, or Elinks?

[Hartmut Figge]

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.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Lynx, Links, or Elinks?

[David Haller]

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

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Re: [gentoo-user] Lynx, Links, or Elinks?

[luis jure]

on 2011-12-09 at 18:38 Pandu Poluan wrote:


>As the subject says: Which text browser do you recommend?

i haven't used text browsers for some time now, but i definitely prefered
links over lynx. if i were you, i would try both. for me the links
interface was much better, although lynx seems to be better known or more
widely used. 

Re: [gentoo-user] Lynx, Links, or Elinks?

[Frank Steinmetzger]

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On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 10:36:32AM -0200, luis jure wrote:

> >As the subject says: Which text browser do you recommend?
> 
> i haven't used text browsers for some time now, but i definitely prefered
> links over lynx. if i were you, i would try both. for me the links
> interface was much better, although lynx seems to be better known or more
> widely used. 
 
I like elinks for its tabs capability and easy configurability through its GUI
(the latter isn’t a killer feature in console land, but it makes it easy for
example to find every keyboard-assignable feature it has).

And concerning size:

ls -l /usr/bin/{lynx,elinks}
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  933972 24. Okt 15:56 /usr/bin/elinks
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1286964  6. Jun 2011  /usr/bin/lynx

Plus, if you need it, elinks provides a number of other goodies like support
for bittorrent or samba.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Lynx, Links, or Elinks?

[Aljosha Papsch]

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Am Sonntag, den 11.12.2011, 00:13 +0100 schrieb Frank Steinmetzger:
> On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 10:36:32AM -0200, luis jure wrote:
> 
> > >As the subject says: Which text browser do you recommend?
> > 
> > i haven't used text browsers for some time now, but i definitely
> prefered
> > links over lynx. if i were you, i would try both. for me the links
> > interface was much better, although lynx seems to be better known or
> more
> > widely used. 
>  
> I like elinks for its tabs capability and easy configurability through
> its GUI
> (the latter isn’t a killer feature in console land, but it makes it
> easy for
> example to find every keyboard-assignable feature it has).

I like elinks and lynx for their proxy support. lynx simply uses *_proxy
environment variables, elinks must be configured in it's menu. links
doesn't support https over proxy.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Lynx, Links, or Elinks?

[Indi]

On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 01:40:01PM +0100, Lavender wrote:
> At 2011-12-09 19:38:06,"Pandu Poluan" <pandu@poluan.info> wrote:
> >As the subject says: Which text browser do you recommend?
> >
> >( I just want to read some documentations in HTML. )
> >
> I'm using lynx, I feel it is great ! Lynx is small but efficient, I think it is
> totally enough for your demand, :-)

Another vote for lynx here, though I also have to have elinks for those 
times lynx is too "bare bones". The javascript and tabs do come in handy
sometimes, but lynx is faster, prettier, and renders most sites well enough.

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