I was looking at W3M from emacs. I just have an overly full plate at the moment.
BTW emacs looks fascinating.... Blessings, Paul W. On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 6:33 AM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 8 Sep 2016, Vedanta Teacher wrote: > > > Hummm, this is interesting. I was speaking with Wes at the last PLUG lab > > and I pointed out that I'd been on the internet since 1986 when I was > > using Jughead (?) Gopher (?) and pulling FTP files off of the web. And in > > many ways the web was just as fast back then because we didn't have > Flash, > > Java etc. clogging the bandwith. As soon as I learn some command line > > functions I may go exclusively to text based browsers to circumvent these > > issues. > > I, too, used archie and veronica to find and download ftp files before > the > Web was invented. I am aware of three text-based web browsers: links, lynx, > and emacs (the text editor that has everything, including the kitchen > sink). > > Lynx is useful with an application's help pages are all in .html. > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
