Re: add w3m to txt script please?

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On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Tim Waugh wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 10:39:36AM -0500, lists@m8y.org wrote:
> 
> > It does tabbed browsing beautifully.  I usually have 6 tabs open.
> 
> That's great, really.  But I'm sort of asking about its text
> formatting capabilities. :-)
> 
> I know how to use w3m.

Well, you were asking what it did *better*.
Thus, my response.
As far as I'm concerned, doing frames already puts it ahead of lynx.
And you adding those 4 lines will eliminate the need for me to have the lynx package on my system which is there purely for docbook tools.

Since you say you know how to use w3m, I'm not certain what you're asking about then, you should already be familiar with what its dump output looks like.

But here's a snippet anyway.
$ w3m -dump slashdot.org | head -25
 OSDN : Browse SourceForge - Shop ThinkGeek - freshmeat          Search >>   X
Downloads - Newsletters - Personals

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