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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 can you use Javascript in terminal for w3m?

I found the text browser w3m which is the best so far in my opinion. However, it is main problem is Javascript. I cannot see comments at all in Stackoverflow when I use it. I am not sure what is the restriction in letting Javascript to be in…
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How to wait for an event in Emacs Lisp function?

I'm trying to write the simplest function: send a query to w3m browser and then find a particular place on the webpage: (defun w3m-define-word (word) (interactive "sDefine: ") (progn (w3m-search "Dictionary" word) (set-window-start nil…
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bash: find -exec and filenames

I want to strip the HTML out of few hundred files. Here's the command I've started with: find -name *.html -exec w3m {} > w3m {}.html.out \; The problem I've run into is that it created one single large .htm.out file (named {}.html.out) -- I want…
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How can I disable the exit confirmation while trying to quit w3m?

Is there a way to remove Do you want to exit w3m? (y/n) from prompting after I press q to exit the application?
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Display contents of remote HTML in Emacs

I am aware about w3m integration with Emacs but I am exhausted to make it run on my W7/x64: there is a permanent segmentation fault of w3m binary here. I wonder if there is an alternative way to display remote HTML in Emacs possibly preliminary…
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Dumping html source using w3m gives unexpected characters/symbols

As a new user of w3m I am trying to do something basic like: w3m -dump_source nytimes.com > nytimes.html The output produced gives crazy characters and symbols. However, when I browse using w3m nytimes, it loads properly, and I can even view the…
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Why is bash (WSL) using w3m as it's default browser?

Bash on Ubuntu on Windows 10 is using w3m to open URLs inside the terminal instead of opening Chrome or Edge. How can I get it to launch the Windows default web browser? For example, the following…
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How to set user agent in w3m

I'm using w3m. How do I go about overriding the user agent of this text based web browser? I have tried setting -header "User-Agent: blah" as an example, but I get the following error: w3m: Can't load blah.
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Jupyter opening up in w3c?

I've installed Jupyter via pip on the windows/ubuntu subsystem. Everything seems to be going well, however, when I try running Jupyter, it opens up the page in the w3m browser. Here is a screenshot: https://i.stack.imgur.com/WhgqW.jpg When I close…
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Emacs w3m export highlighted area as text

How can I copy text from emacs-w3m when the content is placed in a table? Currently, it copies the table-formatting and boundaries as well. Is there a export as text for w3m?
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Get the source code of website using lynx

As I can access the source code with lynx, w3m, links, etc. protected with a form. lynx -source -auth=user:pass domain.com lynx -source -accept_all_cookies -auth=user:pass domain.com lynx -accept_all_cookies -auth=user:pass domain.com all fail…
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w3m: Can't load http://localhost:8080

I get this message when i try to running jenkins (localhost:8080) on a debian server. Do you have any idea about what's wrong ? Thanks!
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w3m: fake JavaScript and user-agent

I use w3m to search words in the Spanish dictionary (dle.rae.es), so I'm using a bash script with this line: w3m "https://dle.rae.es/$1" The filename of the script is defes. For example, to search the meaning of "casa" I type defes casa, viewing…
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Does w3m access image links?

To display text/html e-mail in mutt, I'm using w3m. Following the EFAIL announce, I am wondering if w3m is accessing the tags when it render a page (not to display the image, but maybe for accessing metadata like the size or the timestamp) ?…
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web browser on ubuntu server ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(237) Gtk: cannot open display

Question/Problem I am getting an error message when I am trying to run a web browser from the terminal. The error message is basically: ...ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(237) Gtk: cannot open display... How can I correct this problem/get a browser to…
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