w3m
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Developer(s) | Akinori Ito and team members |
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Initial release | 1995 |
Stable release | 0.5.3[1]
/ 15 January 2011 |
Preview release | v0.5.3+git20230121[2]
/ 21 January 2023 |
Repository | |
Written in | MIT license |
Website | w3m |
w3m is a
Generally, it renders pages in a form as true to their original layout as possible.The name "w3m" stands for "WWW wo miru (WWWを見る)", which is Japanese for "to see the
As of 2021[update], the original project appears to be inactive, while a currently maintained version exists and is packaged in various Linux distributions such as Debian and Fedora. This version is available from the repository of Debian developer Tatsuya Kinoshita.
The most notable feature is full keyboard navigability on everything.
In Emacs
w3m is also used by the Emacs text editor via the emacs-w3m.el Emacs Lisp module.
Forks
Two forks of w3m add support for multiple character-encodings and for other features not in the original:
- Hironori Sakamoto's w3m-m17n ("m17n" stands for multilingualization)
- Kiyokazu Suto's w3mmee ("mee" stands for "Multi-Encoding Extension")
See also
- Eww (web browser)
- Emacs/W3
- Lynx (web browser)
References
- ^ "w3m Files".
- ^ "v0.5.3+git20230121".
- ^ TOKORO, Kyosuke. "w3m 0.2.1–3 for OS/2 WARP". Retrieved 16 August 2010.
- ^ a b Watson, Dave (September 2001). "Text-Mode Web Browsers for OS/2". The Southern California OS/2 User Group. Retrieved 16 August 2010.
- ^ w3m manual page
- ^ a b c d Hoffman, Chris (23 January 2012). "How to Browse From the Linux Terminal With W3M". How-To Geek. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
- ^ "W3M FAQ". Retrieved 8 April 2022.
External links
- Official website
- w3mmee official website
- w3m on GitHub currently (as of 2018–03) maintained version repository