Re: question for seasoned links users?

[Curt <curty@free.fr>]

On 2022-09-17, debian-user@howorth.org.uk <debian-user@howorth.org.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> http://links.twibright.com/user_en.html#subsubch-save_as
>
> But if you try it, you'll see that saves the page as HTML, not as a
> snapshot of the displayed text.

What 'displayed text'? She asked for a *screenshot*. 

>>  Save as
>>  Stores the currently displayed page into a file. A dialog for
>> entering the filename will appear after calling this function. The
>> page will be saved under this filename. If the file already exists,
>> it will be overwritten.
>> 
>>  Save URL as
>>  Works like the previous function, with the difference that you will
>> be first asked for the URL of a page to download, and then for a
>> filename to store the page into. After both have been entered, the
>> page will be downloaded and saved.
>> 
>> Then, of course, there's the man page:
>> 
>>  -dump [0|1] (default: 0)
>>  Print formatted plain-text versions of given URLs to stdout.
>>  -dump-charset (alias for document.dump.codepage)
>>  Codepage used when formatting dump output.
>>  -dump-color-mode (alias for document.dump.color_mode)
>>  Color mode used with -dump.
>>  -dump-width (alias for document.dump.width)
>>  Width of the dump output.
>> 
>> https://linux.die.net/man/1/links
>
> And that of course helpfully points out at the top that its describing
> the behaviour of elinks rather than link itself.

So what?

>> Good luck.
>> 
>
>


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