w3m
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 w3m running in an xterm displaying the Wikipedia main page. | |||||
| Developer(s) | Akinori Ito and team members | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Initial release | 1995 | ||||
| Stable release(s) [±] | |||||
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| Preview release(s) [±] | |||||
| none (n/a) [±] | |||||
| Repository |  | ||||
| Written in | C | ||||
| Operating system | OS/2,[3][4] Unix & Unix-like (Solaris, SunOS, HP-UX, Linux, FreeBSD and EWS-UX (EWS-4800),[5] Windows (with Cygwin) | ||||
| Available in | English and Japanese | ||||
| Type | Web browser, Terminal pager | ||||
| License | MIT license | ||||
| Website | w3m | ||||
w3m is a free software/open source text-based web browser and terminal pager. It has support for tables, frames,[4] SSL connections, color and inline images on suitable terminals. 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 WWW" where W3 is a numeronym of WWW.
The original project appears to be inactive, while a currently maintained version exists and is packaged in various GNU/Linux distributions such as Debian and Fedora. This version is available from the repository of Debian developer Tatsuya Kinoshita.
In Emacs[edit]
w3m is also used by the Emacs text editor via the emacs-w3m.el Emacs Lisp module.
Forks[edit]
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[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "w3m: Files". SourceForge. 15 January 2011. Retrieved 30 August 2014.
- ^ "Releases · tats/w3m". GitHub. 5 January 2019. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
- ^ 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
