On 03/03/2012 04:56 PM, Randy Kramer wrote:
Hijacking this thread thinking I might have a good audience for my question: Is there a text based browser that makes it easy to copy a URL (with, e.g., the middle mouse button) to paste it in another (graphical) browser? I have lynx installed on my machine, and tried a quick look at it, but is not immediately obvious how to get the URL for a link. Maybe it can be done readily in lynx and I just haven't spotted how to do it? Background: Because some pages (for example, the yahoo home page (yahoo.com) make both Iceweasel and konqueror use a very high percentage of the CPU, I thought I might try to load pages like that in a text browser, then copy the URLs of any links that I want to follow into Iceweasel to view them with pictures and such. Thanks! Randy Kramer
Rather then hijack a thread I would advise you to use Google before you post a question to the list.We like to help but we don't feel as if we have to do 'your' research for you.
A Google search for 'lynx save file option' answers your question on the first link. The man page is included in the packages so you can help yourself as a first try.
WT
On Wednesday 29 February 2012 12:17:44 pm Julien Claassen wrote:I have tried lynx, links, links2, elinks and w3m. I work with those exclusively. I still mostly stick by lynx, but that is just laziness, since it really doesn't do a few things. I have found, that from the above collection elinks is the best. It can be customised to meet almost all your needs. I don't get it to play youtube-videos (as audio) directly yet and I suppose, that might be out of the question. These browsers are all rather comfortable, once you get to know them and they all have a lot of similarities, which is good, as consistency always is. I have only heard about edbrowse, but I think it is really the best solution, if you think, you might encounter a lot of NECESSARY javascript. Necessary opposd to beautifying or slightly helpful javascript.