Re: surfraw

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 11:25:10PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 03:33:23PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
> > Anyone setup surfraw?  I am wondering how I can set it up
> > so that the output is dumped to the screen instead of opening
> > a browser, if possible?  I search "google chili" and surfraw
> > opens "links" with the results.  I would prefer results to scroll
> > the screen like "dict chili".  Will surfraw do this or will
> > I need to try and hack it?
> 
> AFAIK, it needs a browser.  That's its nature, it starts the google
> search for you and then hands you the browser to go where you want.

You could alter the browser to be something like 'w3m -dump', though ...

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]