Re: replace lynx with (e)links in base
On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 05:02:38PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > Take elinks as an example; it's faster, more compact and offers
elinks = links/links-ssl in Debisn
> Or w3m, which has the advantage of not trying to have a !@#$!@# GUI,
> and also does proper frame and table rendering.
Is it? I thought all of these are in text mode console. links and w3m
can do tables. w3m's real advantage is Japanese (16 bit encoding)
support.
> As you notice, it could become a contentious issue easily :)
Contentious, true. But it is worth discussing.
For size and functionality, links (or links-ssl) seems to me
the tightest.
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Package: links Installed-Size: 968 Table=yes Japanese=no
Package: links-ssl Installed-Size: 976 Table=yes Japanese=no
Package: w3m Installed-Size: 1328 Table=yes Japanese=yes
Package: w3m-ssl Installed-Size: 776 Table=yes Japanese=yes (needs w3m)
Package: lynx Installed-Size: 3500 Table=no Japanese=no
Package: lynx-ssl Installed-Size: 3512 Table=no Japanese=no
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 828968 Oct 8 06:27 links (ssl)
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1099960 Jan 25 2002 lynx
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 770 Nov 4 10:12 w3m
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 339368 Nov 4 10:12 w3m-en
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 357832 Nov 4 10:12 w3m-ja
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 901 Nov 4 10:12 w3mman
(Also /usr/share/w3m/* has few files)
lynx has -force_html option to read a php source :-) Others, do not :-(
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