w3m VS nyxt

Compare w3m vs nyxt and see what are their differences.

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w3m nyxt
17 150
775 9,533
- 0.8%
2.0 9.8
16 days ago 11 days ago
C Common Lisp
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later -
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w3m

Posts with mentions or reviews of w3m. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-07.
  • Gemini support for w3m
    1 project | /r/w3m | 23 Jan 2023
    Get the w3m sources: git clone https://github.com/tats/w3m
  • MacLynx beta 4: now with scrollbars and dialogue boxes
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Jan 2023
  • Ask HN: What was the best software that you used during 2022?
    20 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Dec 2022
    nvi2 [0]: I got to like the simplicity of nvi when installing Void Linux on my laptop, but it had some annoying bugs that made me switch to nvi2. In general, it feels like `good' software; powerful enough by virtue of being a 1:1 vi clone with a few crucial improvements (multibyte, multi-undo, etc.), but simple enough to hack on if I miss some feature. Though no autocomplete means it's not suitable for more verbose languages, like Java.

    QuickJS [1]: qjscalc is my go-to scientific calculator, and qjs my go-to JavaScript implementation for simple programs. The C interface is very nice to use, too. All in all, it feels very much like a "complete" engine, even if not quite as fast as one with JIT.

    w3m [2]: Somewhat lacking as a web browser, but a very good pager. Would take it over less any day. Also has the best table display of any text-mode browser, supports inline images, and is rather extensible.

    Wine [3]: It's gotten so good that I no longer have to dual boot Windows. Still not perfect, but definitely on my list of "good software".

    [0]: https://github.com/lichray/nvi2

    [1]: https://bellard.org/quickjs/

    [2]: https://github.com/tats/w3m

    [3]: https://www.winehq.org/

  • Setting up lynx
    4 projects | /r/commandline | 18 Jul 2022
    newer https://github.com/tats/w3m
  • Lynx vs Links
    2 projects | /r/commandline | 12 Jun 2022
  • Any modern terminal browser?
    2 projects | /r/commandline | 29 May 2022
  • yeah I m not paying for all of that
    3 projects | /r/LateStageCapitalism | 20 Apr 2022
    I liked w3m a lot back when I had a job were rando browsing was discouraged. https://github.com/tats/w3m
  • w3m rocks
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Apr 2022
    > I've been noodling about the implementation of adding functionality to w3m and lynx so there is a separate fetch-page func but report a different User-Agent header (eg, "Mozilla"). I've encountered many pages that don't allow access until I change the "lynx-*" header (bastards).

    Wouldn't this feature suffice? https://github.com/tats/w3m/blob/master/doc/README.siteconf

  • Maintained version of w3m?
    1 project | /r/commandline | 12 Feb 2022
    The first result, ffs: https://github.com/tats/w3m
  • Effectively reading and studying an open source project before using it in my project.
    1 project | /r/learnprogramming | 1 Feb 2022
    But the problem is that a lot of the code isn't commented to explain what they're doing and there isn't a lot of documentation online to use the software effectively. (In order to not make my question vague, I'm trying to build a front end Gtk GUI to w3m. But I don't need explanation to the code or steps to do this. even though I didn't understand it and I don't know the steps I need. What I'm looking for is a method to effectively study the code of an open source project that didn't take into consideration that you'll study it, therefor they didn't document well the structure of their codebase and how the project was build and the different parts of making it).

nyxt

Posts with mentions or reviews of nyxt. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-16.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing w3m and nyxt you can also consider the following projects:

rdrview - Firefox Reader View as a command line tool

qutebrowser - A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on Python and Qt.

vimwiki - Personal Wiki for Vim

luakit - Fast, small, webkit based browser framework extensible by Lua.

elinks - Fork of elinks

blockit - WebKitGTK adblock extension with Brave's Rust-based adblock engine for backend.

browsh - A fully-modern text-based browser, rendering to TTY and browsers

emacs-application-framework - EAF, an extensible framework that revolutionizes the graphical capabilities of Emacs

so - A terminal interface for Stack Overflow

ungoogled-chromium - Google Chromium, sans integration with Google

ttrv - Tilde Terminal Reddit Viewer

emacs-webkit - An Emacs Dynamic Module for WebKit, aka a fully fledged browser inside emacs