Re: Navigating your drive in text mode

[kmself]

on Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 08:39:23AM -0800, Xucaen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> 
> --- Chuan-kai Lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> 
> > Instead of using lynx, I would suggest using w3m, which does really
> > amazing things for a text-based browser.  I personally never
> > believed somebody could pull it off until I saw it in action.
> > Install w3m, and point it to slashdot... and you will see :)
> 
> i've never heard of w3m. what is the package name
> for apt-get? is this a text-based file manager?

    $ apt-cache search w3m

...apt-cache is part of apt, though it may be a Woody-only thing.


w3m is a text-mode HTML/Web browser.  I've found that the combination of
screen and w3m makes for a *very* nice browsing envrironment.  I've
switched to this recently as my first choice -- it's stable, you can
read pretty much any website -- there's so much crap HTML out these days
that's unreadable under a graphical browser it hurts. 

Need a new browser window?  "C-a c" brings up a new shell.  Run another
w3m and fire away.  I've added a wrapper (attached) which tells w3m to
run on a default bookmark file by searching through some usual suspects,
else it defaults to the URL or file you give it.


To answer the original question, mc is a good text-mode filesystem
navigation and management tool.

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#!/bin/bash

# A w3m wrapper to allow no-argument startup.

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
realw3m=/usr/bin/w3m    # Actually, a wrapper itself <g>

arg=""  # initialize

# Only subs if no args given and env doesn't say otherwise
if [ $# -eq 0 -a \( -z "$HTTP_HOME" -a -z "$WWW_HOME" \) ]; then

    # DEBUG: echo "No args, hunting the wumpus"

    for arg in \
        $HOME/.w3m/bookmark.html \
        $HOME/.netscape/bookmarks.html \
        $HOME/.w3m/bookmark.html \
        $HOME/.w3m/bookmark.html \
        $HOME/.netscape/bookmarks.html \
        $HOME/.galeon/bookmarks.xml 

    do
        if [ -f $arg ]; then
            # DEBUG: echo "arg set to: $arg"
            break 
        fi
    done;
else
    : # DEBUG: echo "Args: $#"
fi

eval $realw3m $arg $@

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