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  Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-02-25 13:50 +0100
    Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2021-02-25 13:50 +0100
      Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-02-25 14:20 +0100
        Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2021-02-25 14:50 +0100
    Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) IL Ka <kazakevichilya@gmail.com> - 2021-02-25 14:00 +0100
      Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-02-25 14:20 +0100
        Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-02-25 14:30 +0100
          Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-02-25 15:50 +0100
      Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-02-25 14:40 +0100
        Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2021-02-25 14:50 +0100
          Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) Karen Lewellen <klewellen@shellworld.net> - 2021-02-25 23:50 +0100
        Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2021-02-25 15:00 +0100
          Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) "James B" <portoteacher80@fastmail.com> - 2021-02-25 15:50 +0100
            Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-02-25 16:00 +0100
              Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2021-02-25 16:10 +0100
                Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) "James B" <portoteacher80@fastmail.com> - 2021-02-25 16:20 +0100
                Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-02-25 16:40 +0100
                  Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2021-02-25 16:50 +0100
                    Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-02-25 17:20 +0100
                    Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2021-02-25 23:50 +0100
                      Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-02-26 13:30 +0100
                        Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2021-02-26 14:50 +0100
                  Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-02-26 01:30 +0100
              Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) Michael Howard <mike@dewberryfields.co.uk> - 2021-02-25 16:10 +0100
        Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2021-02-25 16:20 +0100
    Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-02-25 14:10 +0100
    Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2021-02-25 14:10 +0100
      Re: Looking for a "text mode browser" (good description????) Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-02-25 14:40 +0100

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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 I've
> never considered migrating from SeaMonkey.

Works for me with (neo)mutt + urlview and Firefox[1].

Unfortunately Firefox insist to steal the focus then, so it's relegated 
to its own virtual desktop.

[1] it's unclear to me how Firefox chooses which window to use (last 
window with focus?), as I typically have several open.

Kind regards,
Andrei
-- 
http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser

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#232155

(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 filtered it out 
for some reason.)

On Friday, February 26, 2021 07:22:48 AM Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> 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 I've never considered migrating from SeaMonkey.

Works for me in Wheezy using the (then current) versions of KDE (kmail) and 
Firefox -- not sure about later versions.


> Works for me with (neo)mutt + urlview and Firefox[1].
> 
> Unfortunately Firefox insist to steal the focus then, so it's relegated
> to its own virtual desktop.
> 
> [1] it's unclear to me how Firefox chooses which window to use (last
> window with focus?), as I typically have several open.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Andrei

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#232130

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 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 isn't in repository and depends on Firefox. I'm
> > > > strongly pro-SeaMonkey ;}
> > > 
> > > 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 Thunderbird are - although, again AFAIK, only Firefox is
> > still an official Mozilla product.
> > 
> 
> I date from era of Netscape Navigator.

Oh dear, the young upstart that killed off NCSA Mosaic!

BTW I'm a fan of ^A ^C and pasting the result into a buffer.
It has the advantage of:

  showing the formatting of the original page

  showing the bits of the page that look like
  text but aren't really so¹, and are therefore
  missed by lynx et al.

in the browser's display.

¹ ^A doesn't change them to inverse-video.

Cheers,
David.

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#232096

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..
>>
>> https://www.brow.sh/
>>
>
> Maybe later. It isn't in repository and depends on Firefox.
> I'm strongly pro-SeaMonkey ;}
>
>
>
Err, where do think SeaMonkey evolved from?

-- 
Michael Howard.

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#232097

On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 07:33:36 -0600
Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> 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 "useful: to 1st time user.
> 

Tough. All the tutorials appear to be about getting the programs
installed and using them interactively, as most people will want to do.
Probably only the man pages will give details of the kind of usage you
have in mind.

You can probably persuade curl to do what you want, but admittedly it
is a bit of a beast, with a man page to match. Long ago, DSL routers
would frequently hang in some way, and I wrote a script to reboot mine
when that happened. Naively, I started out with pinging a well-known
site to test connectivity, but it turns out that such routers could
pass ping quite happily while denying other Net access. So the project
escalated, and the final version used curl to pick out particular bits
of text from up to half a dozen pages to confirm all was well.
Unfortunately, the final code was write-only, being full of pipes, *nix
text primitives and assorted brackets, but I'm sure your needs are
simpler.

-- 
Joe

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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 search results to a text processor.
> Synaptic led me to "surfraw" and "w3m".
> Documentation for "w3m" was more use user friendly, so I installed it.
> 
> Following a man page example I got:
> 
> >richard@defaultinstall:~$ $ w3m -M http://w3m.sourceforge.net
                             ^ Drop that dollar

> >bash: $: command not found

The dollar sign in the instructions is only a reminder that you
enter that stuff at the prompt. Not part of the command.

Unfortunate, yes.

> >richard@defaultinstall:~$ su
> >Password: root@defaultinstall:/home/richard# $ w3m -M
> >http://w3m.sourceforge.net
> >bash: $: command not found

Wow-wow-wow: now we know how to hack you ;-P

Cheers
 - t

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#232079

On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 at 23:41, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> 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 the final line that I have quoted
above is bash telling you:
"bash here, I could not find a command named <dollar-symbol>"

It's the standard error message that appears after any mistyped
command word.

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#232083

On 02/25/2021 07:01 AM, David wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 at 23:41, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> 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 the final line that I have quoted
> above is bash telling you:
> "bash here, I could not find a command named <dollar-symbol>"
> 
> It's the standard error message that appears after any mistyped
> command word.
> 

"Blaming on lack of caffeine" says Owl looking sheepish ;}

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