Re: [SLUG] shell display of HTML Docs

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Thu Sep 25 2008 - 16:34:46 EDT


On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 02:52:42PM -0400, Larry Brown wrote:

> I have been periodically irritated at this insistence on a number of
> developers saving all of their documentation in html format. It has now
> dawned on me that there is probably some reasonably effective tool that
> I'm just not using to accomplish this from the shell. Right tool for
> the job makes all the difference... I use emacs for editing html and
> php etc and perhaps there is a way to get emacs to act as a browser?
>
> What do you guys use to display html as if in a browser windows from a
> shell? The boxes I work on are usually not local and so X is usually
> overkill...

Lynx will work, but won't display tables or the like. Elinks (or Links)
will, and so will w3m.

Paul

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