W3MMAN(1) General Commands Manual W3MMAN(1)NAME
w3mman - an interface to the on-line reference manuals by w3m(1)SYNOPSIS
w3mman [-M path] [section] page
w3mman [-M path] -k keyword
w3mman -l file
DESCRIPTION
w3mman is the system's manual pager by w3m(1).
OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below.
-M path
Specify path as MANPATH.
-k keyword
Specify keyword.
-l file
Specify a file.
ENVIRONMENT
W3MMAN_W3M
If W3MMAN_W3M is set, its value is used instead of w3m.
W3MMAN_MAN
If W3MMAN_MAN is set, its value is used instead of /usr/bin/man.
FILES
/usr/lib/w3m/cgi-bin/w3mman2html.cgi
convert manual page to html.
SEE ALSO man(1), w3m(1).
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.or.jp>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
Nov 5, 2005 W3MMAN(1)
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W3M(1) General Commands Manual W3M(1)NAME
w3m - a text based Web browser and pager
SYNOPSIS
w3m [options] [URL or filename]
Use "w3m -h" to display a complete list of current options.
DESCRIPTION
w3m is a World Wide Web (WWW) text based client. It has English and Japanese help files and an option menu and can be configured to use
either language. It will display hypertext markup language (HTML) documents containing links to files residing on the local system, as well
as files residing on remote systems. It can display HTML tables and frames. In addition, it can be used as a "pager" in much the same man-
ner as "more" or "less". Current versions of w3m run on Unix (Solaris, SunOS, HP-UX, Linux, FreeBSD, and EWS4800) and on Microsoft Windows
9x/NT.
OPTIONS
At start up, w3m will load any local file or remote URL specified at the command line. For help with runtime options, press "H" while run-
ning w3m. Command line options are:
-t tab set tab width
-r ignore backspace effect
-l line
# of preserved line (default 10000)
-s Shift_JIS
-j JIS
-e EUC-JP
-B load bookmark
-bookmark file
specify bookmark file
-T type
specify content-type
-m internet message mode
-v visual startup mode
-M monochrome display
-F automatically render frame
-dump dump formatted page into stdout
-cols width
specify column width (used with -dump)
-ppc count
specify the number of pixels per character (default 8.0) Larger values will make tables narrower.
-dump_source
dump page source into stdout
-dump_head
dump response of HEAD request into stdout
-dump_both
dump HEAD and source into stdout
-dump_extra
dump HEAD, source, and extra information into stdout
-post file
use POST method with file content
-header string
insert string as a header
+<num> goto <num> line
-num show line number
-no-proxy
don't use proxy
-no-mouse
don't use mouse
-pauth user:pass
proxy authentication
-S squeeze multiple blank lines
-W toggle wrap search mode
-X don't use termcap init/deinit
-o opt=value
assign value to config option
-config file
specify config file
-debug DO NOT USE
EXAMPLES
To use w3m as a pager:
$ ls | w3m
To use w3m to translate HTML files:
$ cat foo.html | w3m -T text/html
or
$ cat foo.html | w3m -dump -T text/html >foo.txt
NOTES
This is the w3m 0.2.1 Release.
Additional information about w3m may be found on its Japanese language Web site located at:
http://w3m.sourceforge.net/index.ja.html
or on its English version of the site at:
http://w3m.sourceforge.net/index.en.html
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
w3m has incorporated code from several sources. Hans J. Boehm, Alan J. Demers, Xerox Corp. and Silicon Graphics have the copyright of the
GC library comes with w3m package. Users have contributed patches and suggestions over time.
AUTHOR
Akinori ITO <aito@fw.ipsj.or.jp>
4th Berkeley Distribution Local W3M(1)