* markus schnalke 2013-05-28 13:07
> these days, lynx was often mentioned when a text browser was meant.
> Is there really someone (apart from mirabilos) who uses lynx? Don't
> you rather use w3m?
me.
rarely intereactively, though. More with -dump. I do query dictionaries
or similar which happen to have stable structure over time and one can
do things like:
$ lynx -dump foo.bla | sed -n "/^Your query/,/^Similar words/ p"
Mostly I have this wrapped in a script or shell alias and often invoke
it from within vim.
For interactive browsing in the terminal, I indeed use w3m more often --
it renders often better. But, well not always, especially when menu and
content are not sequential.
compare
$ w3m -dump -cols 60 \
"http://odict.leo.org/ende?lang=de&search=suck"; \
| sed -n "/[0-9]\s*Treffer/,/Suchfilter einstellen close/ p"
$ lynx -dump -nonumbers -nolist -nolog
"http://odict.leo.org/ende?lang=de&search=suck"; \
| sed -n "/[0-9]\s*Treffer/,/Suchfilter einstellen close/ p"
$ lynx -dump -nonumbers -nolist -nolog
"http://odict.leo.org/ende?lang=de&search=suck"; \
| sed -n "/[0-9]\s*Treffer/,/Suchfilter einstellen close/ {
s/\[_\]\s*//; p}"
In the end, it's a matter of taste, I guess.
--s.
