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w3m is a free software/open source text-based web browser.

w3m is a text-based web browser as well as a pager like more or less. Allows for browsing of web pages through a terminal emulator window (xterm, rxvt or something like that). Moreover, w3m can be used as a text formatting tool which typesets HTML into plain text.

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How do I exit the w3m help menu?

I'm using scrapy and just discovered the view command from the shell. It brings up the webpage in a very convenient instance of w3m. From man w3m, I learned that H brings up the help menu, but despite reading through it, I can't find the proper way…
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How to see images in tmux

I browse w3m with an images plugin. On normal terminals and even (typically minimally-featureful) virtual terminals I can see images. But when I browse with w3m in tmux the images don't show up. If this were an ssh connection I would probably try…
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Fold/wrap long lines in w3m

I'm looking for an option to wrap lines of rendered HTML in w3m when they reach a certain length, say 72 characters. By default the text spans the entire width of the window and reading becomes difficult. Here's a screenshot of how an article looks…
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Open current page in w3m in firefox?

I've been using w3m lately to browse the web, but sometimes I want to view the page in firefox instead. Is there a way to open the current page in w3m in firefox with a keyboard shortcut?
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How to send multiple magnet links to a separate headless Linux machine?

With torrents, we could use w3m (Linux) to pass multiple torrent files to a separate machine running rtorrent. This doesn't work with magnet links. We can pass magnet links from Firefox to Azureus with no problem, but the sending machine and the…
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How to enable cookies in w3m

When I try to login Github, it says 'Cookies must be enabled to use GitHub'. How can I set w3m to enable cookies always? Does it have any .w3mrc file or something to set it up? I am using w3m for the default browser in Mutt. This means I am not…
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How to disconnect an external browser launched inside w3m from w3m?

Pressing Shift+m in w3m will launch external browser to show the current page from w3m. However, once the external browser is launched, w3m is frozen, waiting the user to quit the external browser before going back to the normal mode. Is it possible…
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Disable image viewing on w3m?

I'm using w3m in Sakura Terminal. I use tmux so only a small part of the screen should be allocated to the web browser - however, images appear all over the entire terminal window and sometimes flicker annoyingly. I personally prefer w3m without…
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How can I type an exclamation mark (!) in an HTML form in the w3m browser?

I'm trying to type "!maven guava" in DuckDuckgo.com's search box in the w3m browser, but when I press !, w3m interprets it as a hotkey to run a shell command. How can I escape this and just type a literal !? This happens with both raw w3m in bash,…
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w3m - work offline for email HTML attachement preview

I'm using w3m for reading HTML mail in Mutt. I'm not using auot_view but rather open the HTML attachements in w3m. w3m seems to download resources like stylesheets and images by default (it has just showed me StackOverflow logo preview, in…
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w3m keeps auto-refreshing

When I run w3m 'google.com/search?unicode+smiley' the page does load correctly, but it keeps refreshing every 0 seconds until I hit CtrlC. I don't think I changed any of my w3m settings and this is a new behaviour.
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Is it possible to add Referer for all requests in w3m or lynx?

I am messing with OverTheWire games and stumbled upon a problem which I'd like to solve my way. Simple web page with authorization which gives me a code I need if my request has proper referrer. In w3m for example I can add to my initial request a…
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w3m on WSL - Can't select text using mouse

I am using the w3m text browser through WSL, on my Windows 11 machine. I cannot select any text (for copy/paste using the Windows clipboard) shown by w3m. Neither works on Windows Terminal nor the traditional conhost. Copy/paste works in general…
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Cygwin use urxvt as shell and w3m-img not working with neofetch / ranger

So I'm trying to use urxvt instead of mintty but I haven't found a way other than launching mintty then launching urxvt and closing mintty. I tried making another .bat file which launched cmd.exe and then urxvt, but I can't close cmd.exe My other…
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