[Gllug] w3m and lynx

Bruce Richardson itsbruce at uklinux.net
Thu Dec 6 10:53:05 UTC 2001


On 12/6/01, 10:43:05 AM, David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> 
wrote regarding Re: [Gllug] w3m and lynx:


> On Wednesday, 5 Dec 2001, Pete Ryland wrote:
> >Apparently w3m is better coz it displays tables and frames better or
> >something,

> It does. However, lynx's 'numbered links' mode is very useful, and
> sadly missing from w3m.

w3m was designed to be an html pager.  It just turned out to be a neat 
little browser as well.  If anybody is interested, I have scripts that 
allow you to to open a link in a new window (assuming you are running w3m 
in an xterm) and to mail a link/current url.

-- 

Bruce

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