Re: surfraw

["Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com>]

on Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 04:16:50AM +0000, Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org) wrote:
> 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 ...

That doesn't work, I tried with 'lynx -dump'.  Surfraw doesn't take
options to the browser command.

Looking at /etc/surfraw.conf, though, I note that there is a line:

    def   SURFRAW_text_browser_args none

...which is awfully suggestive, if you ask me ;-)

Peace.

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