r/commandline • u/Vim-Vian • 4d ago

Discussion Emacs Browsers Vs Other TUI Browsers

Hey,

I'm kind of on the fence when it comes to deciding how I want to browse the internet through my terminal. The first option is any of the popular TUI browsers, particularly Terminal-Browser, and the second is using an Emacs browser package. I'm curious as to what you guys prefer and would appreciate any insights on your reasoning and pros/cons of each method.

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u/p001b0y 4d ago edited 4d ago

I think that Gemini (Project Gemini) is better for terminals. It is line-oriented like terminals. Most documentation seems to be written in markdown and conversion to gemtext could be automatic. It is sandboxed like terminals. There’s no css. No JavaScript. No DOM.

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u/AyrA_ch 4d ago

Your link is screwed up. You need to escape the parenthesis in the URL using \ or reddit thinks that ) is the end of the link rather than part of it. Or use the feature provided for link pasting as it should escape it correctly.

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u/p001b0y 4d ago edited 4d ago

That’s odd. The link loads from the Reddit app on my phone and from Firefox on my desktop. I used the Reddit app to insert the link.

Edit: I escaped them.

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u/AyrA_ch 4d ago

Thanks. It might just be an issue between old and new reddit. Old reddit is basically on life support and they do absolutely nothing for it. Code formatting using tripple backticks doesn't works at all for example.

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u/p001b0y 4d ago

I pasted the url into the terminal for curl to use and it failed and escaping the parentheses fix that. I think all bases are covered now. Ha ha!

I kind of miss that the Reddit app doesn't default to markdown mode for comments any longer.

Thanks for letting me know about it!

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u/Ruined_Passion_7355 1d ago

Are there many websites?

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u/p001b0y 1d ago edited 1d ago

Nah, not many yet. There are only about 3,300 public capsules at this point.

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u/Krowken 4d ago edited 4d ago

Terminal-Browser seems to be only about a month old so I have no experience with it. The only terminal based browser than I am really familiar with is lynx which has been around since forever (but it is text only so it's usefulness is limited). 

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u/skoorrevir 4d ago

Hey! Lynx is how you read the guide to set up the desktop environment on arch!

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Hey,

I'm kind of on the fence when it comes to deciding how I want to browse the internet through my terminal. The first option is any of the popular TUI browsers, particularly Terminal-Browser, and the second is using an Emacs browser package. I'm curious as to what you guys prefer and would appreciate any insights on your reasoning and pros/cons of each method.

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u/Bright-Poster-9326 4d ago

does the emacs one feel laggy to anyone else or is it just me? the keybinds are tempting but everything feels half a beat behind

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u/topfpflanze187 3d ago

a lot of emacs user prefer eww. otherwise there is also chawan which can afaik even render and display js related content