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Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????)



On Thu, Feb 25, 2021, 7:13 AM Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
On 02/25/2021 06:49 AM, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2021-02-25 at 07:41, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
>> Darac's answer to answer to a previous question led me to try
>>
>>> https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=%2Bintitle%3Afaq%20site%3Adebian.org
>> which gave me the content I needed, but not in a convenient format.
>>
>> I would like to pipe search results to a text processor.
>> Synaptic led me to "surfraw" and "w3m".
>> Documentation for "w3m" was more use user friendly, so I installed it.
....
>

*DUH*  {With 'egg on face' ;{
Can I blame it on a caffeine free diet ;/
Thank you.

That caffeine excuse flies here 😊
One of the unmentioned differences between lynx and wget is that lynx can be used in a full-screen, menu-like text-mode form. Whereas wget is only command line. You will learn how fast an http/https browser can be if it doesn't have to render bitmap graphics.


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