Re: alternative "info" reader (was: kernel makeoptions)

[Thomas Dickey <dickey%his.com@localhost>]

On Sun, 27 Feb 2011, Magnus Eriksson wrote:

> As a non-tangent, the previously mentioned pinfo reads man pages too, with 
> hyperlinks where appropriate.  That got me thinking; it would be nice to have 
> a standard tool (with a liberal license) that would read all these formats, 
> ideally with the ability to switch between several open tabs since you often 
> are reading a bunch of man pages at the same time...
>
> Of course, there is such a tool, and it's called a "web browser".  (And Gnome 
> has a special documentation browser, right?)  Seems like having something 
> serving pages from http://localhost/ would be a useful standard component of 
> a modern Unix system, along with something like lynx/links.

w3m has an MIT license (which seems to be rare for a "web browser").
lynx and (e)links(2) are all GPL.

w3m's documentation needs a little work...

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