Wednesday, February 13, 2008

What is Emacs/W3 browser?

The Emacs/W3 is a web browser for the GNU Emacs text editor, written mainly by William M. Perry and wholly in GNU Emacs Lisp. Like lynx, links, elinks, and w3m, it is mainly text-based. Emacs/W3 is part of the Sumo package for XEmacs, and the submodule for fetching an URL is now part of the GNU Emacs CVS repository.

As noted by the maintainer, the W3 package is now monolithic and a bit obsolete. A project has been planned to reengineer W3 for increased modularity. More current Emacs web browsers contain an interface to w3m.

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