W3m

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w3m
Developer(s) Akinori Ito et al.
Initial release1995
Stable release
0.5.3 [1]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 15 January 2011
Preview release
v0.5.3+git20230121 [2]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 21 January 2023
Repository
Written in C
Operating system OS/2, [3] [4] Unix & Unix-like (Solaris, SunOS, HP-UX, Linux, FreeBSD and EWS-UX (EWS-4800), [5] Windows (with Cygwin), macOS (with Homebrew)
Available inEnglish and Japanese
Type Web browser, Terminal pager
License MIT license
Website w3m.sourceforge.net   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

w3m is a free and open source text-based web browser licensed under the MIT license. It differs from other text based browsers by supporting elements such as tables, frames, and images. [6] [7]

Contents

History

The name "w3m" stands for "WWW wo miru (WWWを見る)", which is Japanese for "to see the WWW" where W3 is a numeronym of WWW. [8] The original project is no longer active, but an active version is being maintained by a different developer, Tatsuya Kinoshita. [9]

Functions

w3m runs in terminal emulator programs such as xterm and GNOME Terminal. [10] The browser has tabbed browsing, right click menus, and image support, [10] along with support for tables and frames. It also functions as a terminal pager. [6] It can be navigated solely using the keyboard or with the mouse. There are two different display modes, one with colors and one that is monochrome. [11]

w3m can be used within Emacs. [12]

Some distributions require the installation of a second package, w3m-img, to render images using w3m. [13]

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References

  1. ↑ "w3m Files".
  2. ↑ "v0.5.3+git20230121".
  3. ↑ TOKORO, Kyosuke. "w3m 0.2.1–3 for OS/2 WARP" . Retrieved 16 August 2010.
  4. ↑ Watson, Dave (September 2001). "Text-Mode Web Browsers for OS/2". The Southern California OS/2 User Group. Retrieved 16 August 2010.
  5. ↑ w3m manual page
  6. 1 2 Rutland, David (2 November 2022). "The 3 Best Terminal-Based Web Browsers for Linux". MUO. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
  7. ↑ Negus, Christopher (28 January 2005). Linux Bible. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN   978-0-7645-8974-4.
  8. ↑ "W3M FAQ" . Retrieved 8 April 2022.
  9. ↑ Das, Ankush (20 October 2020). "Best Terminal-based Web Browsers for Linux Users". It's FOSS. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
  10. 1 2 Hoffman, Chris (23 January 2012). "How to Browse From the Linux Terminal With W3M". How-To Geek. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
  11. ↑ "How to use the W3M text-based web browser on Linux". AddictiveTips. 17 April 2021. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
  12. ↑ "EmacsWiki: w3m". www.emacswiki.org. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
  13. ↑ Rankin, Kyle (2006). Linux Multimedia Hacks: Tips & Tools for Taming Images, Audio, and Video. "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". ISBN   978-0-596-10076-6.
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