From: oldernow@dev.null
On 2024-04-14, D wrote:
> Oh banking and shopping are two painful usecases for me. I
> fear that those two are what will eventually bring google
> its hegemony in the browsing space, and then I'll be forced
> to buy a separate laptop for only those two use cases. =(
> Hmm, or come to think of it, probably a VM in the cloud
> running only google chrome. But it still would pain me to
> have to pay for what should ideally be free. Well... such
> is life. =(
I've said that last part about beer many times.
> Actually links/elinks is one of those projects that never
> fully blossomed. I did hack buffers into links somehow. It
> was not very beautiful but it did kind of work, so I could
> import all my tabs from firefox to links and continue
> from there.
I wish I could remember why I wound up preferring it to lynx.
I usually invoke it by way of a Lua script called
"el". Staring at it now, I'm not quite sure of all that
it attempts to do. Near the top there's something about
testing the specified URL to see if an SSL error occurs,
and then use "lynx" instead, so I imagine I learned
the latter has less (or no?) issues with SSL. It also
attempts to do some character encoding of the specified
URL, so either elinks had trouble with some URLs, or I
did that to avoid trouble when finally invoking elinks
in the shell ( forbid it contain an ampersand, for
example...). Invoking with TM in the environment directs
it to open the elinks session in a new tmux window. A few
other things....
> But then something got in the way, so it never made it
> into my fixed routine. Maybe I should restart that?
No idea what to tell you. I imagine it did some comparison
testing way back, and concluded it was best for me. But
I don't remember the test details.
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