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]
