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

2021-02-26 Thread rhkramer
(Aside (Ignore): I (my email system) apparently never received the "On Jo, 25 feb 21, 17:43:49, Felix Miata wrote:" post -- not in (the kmail) trash (folder), not in my debian folder -- I suspect this happens every so often. I should consider looking in gmail's trash folder -- maybe they

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

2021-02-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 25 feb 21, 17:43:49, Felix Miata wrote: > > 2.02 is where I'm from. Are there any email apps that will hunt down an open > web > browser window and open an email link in a new tab in that open window > instead of > some new window? The guarantee that that's what will happen is one reason

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

2021-02-25 Thread David Wright
On Thu 25 Feb 2021 at 09:30:13 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 02/25/2021 09:06 AM, The Wanderer wrote: > > On 2021-02-25 at 10:02, Michael Howard wrote: > > > On 25/02/2021 14:55, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > On 02/25/2021 08:41 AM, James B wrote: > > > > > > > > > Browsh was reviewed in

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

2021-02-25 Thread Karen Lewellen
Lynx is still under development, has an active mailing list, and allot of documentation. Best thing might be to join the list and let others help you. Speaking personally? Man pages are likely to be out of date. as for links the chain, I would welcome discovering a mailing list too. Still

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

2021-02-25 Thread Felix Miata
The Wanderer composed on 2021-02-25 10:40 (UTC-0500): > Richard Owlett wrote: >> I date from era of Netscape Navigator. > As do I; my first use of it was no later than the days when my family > was getting its Internet connection through dial-up with AOL 4.0. (And > maybe as early as 3.0.) > I

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

2021-02-25 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/25/2021 09:40 AM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2021-02-25 at 10:30, Richard Owlett wrote: On 02/25/2021 09:06 AM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2021-02-25 at 10:02, Michael Howard wrote: Err, where do think SeaMonkey evolved from? As far as I'm aware, it's a lineal descendant of the Mozilla

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

2021-02-25 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-02-25 at 10:30, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 02/25/2021 09:06 AM, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2021-02-25 at 10:02, Michael Howard wrote: >>> Err, where do think SeaMonkey evolved from? >> >> As far as I'm aware, it's a lineal descendant of the Mozilla Suite, >> just as Firefox and

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

2021-02-25 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/25/2021 09:06 AM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2021-02-25 at 10:02, Michael Howard wrote: On 25/02/2021 14:55, Richard Owlett wrote: On 02/25/2021 08:41 AM, James B wrote: Browsh was reviewed in one of the linux magazines recently.It uses firefox behind the scenes and renders the pages to

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

2021-02-25 Thread Joe
On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 07:33:36 -0600 Richard Owlett wrote: > > There is also a browser named "lynx". > > Not sure which one suits your needs best. > > Try them all! There are also links and elinks. > > Can someone recommend a newbie friendly intro to any of them. > Man pages can be less than

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

2021-02-25 Thread James B
I'm not sure if Browsh works with SeaMonkey- there's many reasons why I imagine it should work, but it depends on whether or not the differences present would be critical.Would be interesting to know -- James B portoteache...@fastmail.com Em Qui, 25 Fev ʼ21, às 15:06, The Wanderer

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

2021-02-25 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-02-25 at 10:02, Michael Howard wrote: > On 25/02/2021 14:55, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> On 02/25/2021 08:41 AM, James B wrote: >> >>> Browsh was reviewed in one of the linux magazines recently.It >>> uses firefox behind the scenes and renders the pages to ASCII for >>> display in a

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

2021-02-25 Thread Michael Howard
On 25/02/2021 14:55, Richard Owlett wrote: On 02/25/2021 08:41 AM, James B wrote: Browsh was reviewed in one of the linux magazines recently.It uses firefox behind the scenes and renders the pages to ASCII for display in a terminal, which is a novel approach.I've tried it and it works well..

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

2021-02-25 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/25/2021 08:41 AM, James B wrote: Browsh was reviewed in one of the linux magazines recently.It uses firefox behind the scenes and renders the pages to ASCII for display in a terminal, which is a novel approach.I've tried it and it works well.. https://www.brow.sh/ Maybe later. It

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

2021-02-25 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/25/2021 07:23 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: to...@tuxteam.de (to...@tuxteam.de) wrote: To expand on that, perhaps wget -O - | html2text tries to make sense of the html (which isn't always possible) and output some text version of it. The "-O -" tells wget to send its output to stdout

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

2021-02-25 Thread James B
Browsh was reviewed in one of the linux magazines recently.It uses firefox behind the scenes and renders the pages to ASCII for display in a terminal, which is a novel approach.I've tried it and it works well.. https://www.brow.sh/ -- James B portoteache...@fastmail.com Em Qui, 25 Fev

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

2021-02-25 Thread John Hasler
Links, links2, and elinks (also install elinks-doc) as well as lynx, surfraw, and w3m. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

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

2021-02-25 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Thu, Feb 25, 2021, 7:13 AM Richard Owlett 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 > >> > >>> >

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

2021-02-25 Thread Kent West
On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 7:34 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > On 02/25/2021 06:50 AM, IL Ka wrote: > > There is also a browser named "lynx". > > Not sure which one suits your needs best. > > Try them all! > > Can someone recommend a newbie friendly intro to any of them. > Man pages can be less than

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

2021-02-25 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/25/2021 07:01 AM, David wrote: On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 at 23:41, Richard Owlett wrote: Following a man page example I got: richard@defaultinstall:~$ $ w3m -M http://w3m.sourceforge.net bash: $: command not found To explicitly state what is implicit in the other replies you have already

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

2021-02-25 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/25/2021 06:50 AM, IL Ka wrote: I would like to pipe search results to a text processor. Do you want rendered results or plain HTML ? In latter case you need ``wget`` I wish to be free of all HTML artifacts. If dealing with only a single page Cntrl-A Cntrl-C and pasting into

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

2021-02-25 Thread Greg Wooledge
to...@tuxteam.de (to...@tuxteam.de) wrote: > To expand on that, perhaps > > wget -O - | html2text > > tries to make sense of the html (which isn't always possible) and > output some text version of it. The "-O -" tells wget to send its > output to stdout (instead of to a file). > > You get

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

2021-02-25 Thread tomas
On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 03:50:32PM +0300, IL Ka wrote: > > > > > > I would like to pipe search results to a text processor. > > > Do you want rendered results or plain HTML ? > In latter case you need ``wget`` To expand on that, perhaps wget -O - | html2text tries to make sense of the html

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

2021-02-25 Thread Richard Owlett
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.

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

2021-02-25 Thread tomas
On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 06:41:20AM -0600, 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

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

2021-02-25 Thread David
On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 at 23:41, Richard Owlett wrote: > Following a man page example I got: > > richard@defaultinstall:~$ $ w3m -M http://w3m.sourceforge.net > > bash: $: command not found To explicitly state what is implicit in the other replies you have already received, please observe that

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

2021-02-25 Thread IL Ka
> > > I would like to pipe search results to a text processor. > Do you want rendered results or plain HTML ? In latter case you need ``wget`` > Synaptic led me to "surfraw" and "w3m". > There is also a browser named "lynx". Not sure which one suits your needs best. Try them all! > > >

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

2021-02-25 Thread The Wanderer
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

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

2021-02-25 Thread Richard Owlett
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