I have found that w3m is a far superior text-based HTML browser than Lynx. It handles tables well and uses the default text editor via shell variables. It was designed as an HTML "text pager" but has turned into a better Lynx than Lynx. Key bindings can be set to mimic the Lynx command set.

Let me repeat, TWiki topic editing via text editor works seamlessly.

The one problem I found was with text-based alt tags processing, but this is very minor compared to features.

Highly recommended.

-- GrantBow - 18 Jan 2003

Thanks! I plan to try it, but it was not installed by default on my Mandrake 9.0, so I'll have to see if there is an RPM. (Compile it myself? -- not likely

-- RandyKramer - 19 Jan 2003

I was over-joyed to find that Debian installation was a snap. I used dselect to find out about related packages, but anyone Debian admin can simply type apt-get install w3m w3m-el w3m-img w3m-ssl to get the main package, emacs integration, image support (!) and ssl support. I don't know what you would use with newer red-hat systems these days.

-- GrantBow - 19 Jan 2003