On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 07:44:07PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote:
> I use elinks -dump to get websites into text files.
> However, if the website contains tables, the output isn't well-formatted
> for a text editor -- all the tables become split lines.

Hi, Nano.

links is an awful botch.  Designwise, it's to browsers what MS-DOS is to
OS's.

> I don't much care for lynx output either.  Is there a good way to get 
> table-oriented html pages into a text editor properly?

w3m(1).  It even has some Emacs integration.

You could make links format the page, and then cat the appropriate
/dev/vcs*

HTH.

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Jan Minar                   "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 9

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