w3m is a text-based web browser as well as a pager like `more' or `less'. With w3m you can browse web pages through a terminal emulator window (xterm, rxvt or something like that). Moreover, w3m can be used as a text formatting tool which typesets HTML into plain text.
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How to construct a patch if I already know the diff?
I'm looking to build this project with patches against a current build on my machine using NixOS: https://github.com/spcmd/w3m
As the project notes, it contains diff files if anyone outside of the supported distro (Arch) wants to build the project…

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How are images shown in the terminal
Some packages like w3m-img, fim, lsix etc can be used to show the images directly on the terminal itself on linux.
I am not talking about converting the image into an ASCII character version and showing it but the image itself which looks proper…

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Viewing Inline images in Mutt mail on macos/OSX
Is there any way to see inline images in mutt pager view in terminal?
I've tried w3m but it requires w3m-img which seems not for macos/osx.
Can anyone suggest if it's possible to integrate imgcat(avaiable in iterm2) in mailcap?
Please suggest…

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w3m unix encoding latin accents
im trying to get only text from a webpage using terminal, but im having problems with latin accents like 'áéíóú'.
im using
w3m -dump https://www.revistavirtualpro.com/noticias/energia
but if you try the code you can see that in some words are…
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How to close a web site visited using w3m on Termux on Android?
I installed w3m on Termux on Android and then opened google.com using the statement w3m https://google.com/. I would like know how to get out of w3m back to the Terminal window.

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Horizontal Navigation In Text Based Browsers
In the old days of table based layouts it was relatively simple to make a horizontal nav bar that rendered horizontally in both graphical and text based browsers.
Now the standard way of making a horizontal nav-bar is by using an unordered list and…

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Bulk website query using text based browsers
I want a text browser like lynx,w3m or links to perform a bulk query from a list of available links. The results will be filtered for a key word and should be added to the original list.
An example, let the list be in…

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Bash script: Store w3m dump into variable
How to store w3m dump result into a variable in a bash script? The result I got by w3m dump is
C: randomIP randomPORT randomUSERNAME randomPASSWORD
I want to cut "C:" and store everything else into variables so I can add it into a file.

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Emacs (24) loads and runs emacs-w3m, but doesn't use it for Lisp HyperSpec
I'm running an Emacs 24 + SLIME set up currently and am trying to get the Common Lisp HyperSpec to display in Emacs via emacs-w3m. Presently, if I enter into the mini-buffer
M-x w3m it does indeed fire up emacs-w3m, and all works as…

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How can I open the link use the external default browser after loading the w3m?
After loading the w3m package, all the links are opened with the w3m now. It is fine. But how can I open it with the default external browser, like Firefox, in Windows?
The browse-url-browser-function is w3m now.
Also, I tried the…

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Scraping simple javascript page
I would like to scrape the data of this web site ( http://www.oddsportal.com/matches/soccer ) in order to get a plain text file with the match info and the odds info in this way:
00:30 Criciuma - Atletico-PR 1:2 2.70 3.24 …

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How to download a http file in unix that required login befor downloading?
I would like to download file from a website that required login prior to downloading. I tried w3p and I can open it but I don't how how to download it. What I tried is:
w3m…

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