w3m is a free software/open source text-based web browser. It has support for tables, frames, SSL connections, color and inline images on suitable terminals. Generally, it renders pages in a form as true to their original layout as possible.
Questions tagged [w3m]
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Is there a back-"button" in w3m?
Does w3m offer a keyboard shortcut to go back one page? I couldn't find anything in the man pages.
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How to pipe html into w3m?
In this post is shown how to pipe curl output to lynx. How can get the same with w3m?
I mean something like:
curl https://www.google.it | w3m
I do not want to use a temporary file.
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Yanking URLs in w3m
I have been using w3m for a couple of weeks and am convinced that it is my preferred text browser - with one exception.
Is there any way to yank URLs to the clipboard without using the mouse?
I have looked through the manual and, using the default…
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ranger image-preview with transparent terminal background
I like the image-preview in ranger, but I also like my terminal transparent.
Is there really no way to get the image-preview work with w3m and transparent background?
(I'm willing to change my terminal-emulator if that's necessary, currently urxvt)
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w3m specify http port
When using w3m terminal browser, how can I specify the http/s port that I want to use when connecting to a web server.
There does not seem to be a -p option to use non-standard ports (80 & 443). The colon syntax, localhost:8080 does not work…
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How I can configure w3m to use squid proxy (or any proxy) by default when invoked by a specific user?
Can I configure w3m to use Squid by default when invoked by a specific user in a bash login shell?
I've looked inside the w3m configuration file, but I don't see any setting were I can set squid as the default proxy.
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Is there a way to change w3m's colour theme?
Recently I've made something in my .bashrc so that I can inquiry unknown words online easily with my bash without open a browser.
I chose w3m as my agent utility, the problem is, its default color theme seems unreadable
under our black colour…
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terminal: Error occurred while reset 800b: errno=25
I have an extremely bizarre problem, occurring somewhere at the intersection of terminal, su, w3m and /dev/null:
when I su - from user1 to user2, following command does not work:
$ w3m zz.html 2>/dev/null
Error occurred while reset 800b:…
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How to display inline images in a terminal that update on scroll with w3mimgdisplay
The w3mimgdisplay program displays images in buffered terminal emulators. This is how: http://blog.z3bra.org/2014/01/images-in-terminal.html . But it is not very well documented. As pointed out in the post, this thread is probably the best you can…
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Mutt : render html within mutt
I want to render html within mutt but I haven't succeed configuring it yet.
I want to use w3m so my .mailcap looks like :
text/html; "$BROWSER" %s &; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"; needsterminal;
text/html; w3m -I %{charset} -T text/hmtl;…
Nicolas Scotto Di Perto
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Jump to Link In W3M
The browser w3m has an option to turn on link numbers.
o > 'Display link numbers'
I would like to be able to jump to a particular link by number, i.e. jump to link number 10 by some key shortcut combination.
Is this possible? I have looked carefully…
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Can w3m automatically search the entered text?
Is there a way to configure w3m so that with 'U', i.e. after entering text into the URL field, the browser will automatically prepend "google.com/search?q=" to it?
Or can some other command be used or defined to obtain the same effect? I tried…
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Alacritty Ranger w3m: Images are not showing or disappear after few seconds
I am using Alacritty and ranger. I have also installed w3m.
This is part of my ~/.config/ranger/rc.conf:
set preview_images true
set preview_images_method w3m
set w3m_offset 0
Most of the time images do not show at all. Just black space. And if…
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Downloading file using command line tool in Linux VM which requires sign-in
Environment: Linux VM which I have access only through command line console.
Goal:
I need to download the file: https://download.nlm.nih.gov/umls/kss/2020AA/umls-2020AA-full.zip
Unlike typical download using wget, this redirects to a sign-in…
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Using mpv ASCII output with w3m
mpv is a video player that can output ASCII video (like mplayer2 and vlc, but with colors). I would like to use it with w3m, within w3m or showing a link to open it in another window using mpv.
For now when I w3m in newsbeuter just tell me that it…
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