Okay, clearly, I'm doing something wrong or w3m is seriously broken. executing w3m without command line arguments just prints its help message. Piping this to a file so I can read all of it makes it clear that a URL or filename is the minimal amount of arguments needed, but both w3m gmail.google.com and w3m relative/path/to/local/textfile.txt produce completely blank screens. Shift H and Shift U as Schoepp mentioned for accessing the internal help system and address bar do nothing, and shift Q to quit seems to work only about half the time, and I've more than once had to use control z to send w3m to the bakground and exit twice to kill the background process. As most of the installed packages on my system are sourced from Debian Unstable(which provides w3m 0.5.3.36), and broken packages occasionally find their way into Unstable, I tried downgrading to the version from Debian Stable(0.5.3.34), but this resulted in no change in behavior. Tab completion on w3m revealed the presence of the w3mman command, which I assume is a short cut to w3m's built-in help, but executing this command again produces a blank screen. So, any idea what's going wrong here and how to fix it? W3m's proponents make it sound like it has some nice features that make it easier to use than other text-mode browser, especially for those coming from a graphical browser, but while I haven't been impressed with lynx the cat or what I've tried of links the chain and its relatives, and browsh's dependence on Firefox means it'll never have the small footprint that is usually a selling point of text browsers, at least I can actually get web pages to load in those browsers. -- Sincerely, Jeffery Wright Bachelor of Computer Science President Emeritus, Nu Nu Chapter, Phi Theta Kappa. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list