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ELinks is an advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web (HTTP/FTP/..) browser. ELinks can render both frames and tables, is highly customizable and can be extended via Lua or Guile scripts. It is quite portable and runs on a variety of platforms. Check the about page for a more complete description.
Contents
Features
- [c]
- means the feature is configurable at build time.
- [d]
- means the feature depends on help from an external library or program. Some of the dependencies are listed on the installation page.
- [e]
- means the feature is experimental and might not be complete or released.
Protocols and standards
- HTML3 (but will eat most HTML tag soup and also a lot of HTML4 stuff)
- Local file support
- HTTP authentication
- Proxy authentication
- JavaScript / ECMAScript [e] [c] [d]
- SSL (https) using either OpenSSL or GNU TLS [c] [d]
- Cascading Style Sheets [e] [c]
- FTP support (passive and active mode)
- Finger support [c]
- IPv6 support [c]
- Local CGI support [c]
- SMB support (requires smbclient) [c] [d]
- Persistent cookies support [c]
- Mimetypes file support for mapping file extensions to content types [c]
- Mailcap support for mapping content types to external handlers [c]
- Internationalized domain names [c] [d]
User interface
- Cute menus and dialogs
- Tabbed browsing
- Translated to many languages [c]
- Full-featured history browsing [c]
- Keybinding manager to easily change bindings or add new ones
- Forms history [c]
- Completion and history in commonly used input dialogs
- Typeahead searches
- Command line mode [e]
Configuration and extensions
- Highly configurable through menus and/or human readable text files
- Support for browser scripting (Lua, Guile, Perl) [c] [d]
- Hiearchic bookmarks
- XBEL bookmarks format support [c] [d]
Rendering
- Tables and frames rendering
- Support for monochrome, 16 (ANSI) colors and 256 colors ([c]) terminals
- Full color support - both foreground and background according to user configuration and/or as specified in the document
Downloading
- Background (non-blocking) downloads
- Download resuming support
- Compressed downloads support [c] [d]
Future goals
The current main goals of ELinks are:
- HTML engine rewrite; DOM support
- Graphics mode support
- Disk cache (maybe :)
For the other (mostly minor) planned features check the enhancement bugs filed against Bugzilla.
Examples
- Percent of USA population murdered by year (source: FBI):
elinks -dump http://bit.ly/qutWZK%7Csed -n -e 's/,//g' -e '/^1960/,/^2010/p'|awk '{p=$6/$2*100; print $1 " " p}'
