From: oldernow@dev.null   
      
   On 2024-04-15, D wrote:   
      
   >> I wish I could remember why I wound up preferring it   
   >> to lynx.   
   >   
   > One thing I find very underrated with terminal tools is   
   > that they are generally very simple to understand. I don't   
   > know a lot of C, but with terminal tools I can still get   
   > a feeling for what they do and rewrite some parts of the   
   > tools if I wish. Usually I just search for a string that   
   > appears in the user interface to get me to the general   
   > place where what I want to happen, should happen, then   
   > a bit of "copy paste" a bit of tweaking, compiling and   
   > voila... a terminal program that does just what I want!   
      
   Oh, wow, I'd forgotten I used to do that too.   
      
   > I've never managed to do that with a GUI program such as   
   > thunderbird och firefox. I wouldn't even know where to   
   > start with those behemoths.   
      
   I'd start with this:   
      
   $ rm -r -f    
      
   :-)   
      
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