Re: elinks -dump without tables
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 06:30:08PM -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: > [...] I wish they'd make it adjust table widths and > such so that it accommodates an 80 character display (like all the GUI > browsers, which adjust to the width of the window they're in). I'd be most happy if you wrote a decent HTML tables -> ASCII art converter. And frames. Text browsers in Debian suck, simply. Some tables just can't be shrinked anymore. It would be hard to fit the following in less than 28 characters, for example: 123456 foobarbaz 67859.34566 -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: elinks -dump without tables
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 05:11:59AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > 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* > One of the problems with both links and w3m is that it doesn't seem to detect the width of the console. On any page with a lot of text, part of the text will be off the screen to the right, and you have to scroll the screen over to see it. I wish they'd make it adjust table widths and such so that it accommodates an 80 character display (like all the GUI browsers, which adjust to the width of the window they're in). Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: elinks -dump without tables
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 05:11:59AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > 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. > The only text-mode browser I used to know was lynx. Then I discovered links. Then I thought I read that links was frozen, and new development was going on in elinks. So now I'm using elinks. But I thought I read here the other day that *now* links is the one being developped and elinks is the problem. Now there's w3m. Can someone rank order why'd I'd prefer one of these? Do I need more than one on my system? Me = confused -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: elinks -dump without tables
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. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
elinks -dump without tables
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. 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? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
