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

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On Thu, Feb 25, 2021, 7:13 AM Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> 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
> >>
> >>>
> 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.
> ....
> >
>
> *DUH*  {With 'egg on face' ;{
> Can I blame it on a caffeine free diet ;/
> Thank you.
>

That caffeine excuse flies here 😊
One of the unmentioned differences between lynx and wget is that lynx can
be used in a full-screen, menu-like text-mode form. Whereas wget is only
command line. You will learn how fast an http/https browser can be if it
doesn't have to render bitmap graphics.

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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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