Page of w3m

w3m is a pager/text-based WWW browser, written by Akinori ITO. Currently it has the features as follows:

News

2001/3/23
w3m-0.2.1 is relased.
2001/3/22
w3m-0.2.0 is relased.
Before 2000/10/5

K.Okabe's patch

The following patches are put together those collected in w3m-dev (Japanese)/w3m-dev-en (English) ML.

Patches Description
w3m-0.1.11-pre-kokb23.patch.gz

Date: 2000/12/13

The major improved futures by this patch are as follows:
  • many bug fixes.
  • some security problem fixes.
  • improve file i/o performance.
  • improve html rendering performance.
w3m-0.1.11-pre-kokb19.patch.gz

w3m-0.1.11-pre-kokb18_19.patch

Date: 2000/11/8

The major improved futures by this patch are as follows:
w3m-0.1.11-pre-kokb18.patch.gz

Date: 2000/10/30

The following patch is the version combined with Sakamoto-san's easy UTF-8 patch on trial: w3m-0111-utf8-kokb18.patch.gz

The major improved futures by this patch are as follows:

  • many bug fixes.
  • improve table rendering.
    for instance, the VALIGN and VSPACE attributes are available.
  • improve mailcap treatment.
    RFC 1524 futures (test, nametemplate, needsterminal, copiousoutput, and edit) are incorporated.
  • extend configuration of keymap and popup menu.
  • improve cookie treatment.
  • improve file name input.


Other patches

The following patches were contributed to w3m-dev/w3m-dev-en ML.

Patch Descriptions
menu-search.patch Enable to search within popup menu.

Author: Jan Nieuwenhuizen

pipebuf.patch The content of current buffer is transfered to a command through a pipe, then the command output is read into a buffer.

Author: aito@ei5sun.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp

linein.patch linein-fix.patch Line editing functions as file name input are expanded. Second is bug fixing.
See [w3m-dev 00976], for further details.

Author: Nobutaka SEKITANI
Tsutomu Okada

send-head.patch Enable to send the HTTP header also while executing w3m.

Author: OMAE, jun

w3m-3.diff See [w3m-dev-en 00239].

Author: Johannes Zellner

In addition, Hironori Sakamoto presents I18N patch and easy UTF-8 patch on the page "Improvement of w3m" (Japanese), and so Kiyokazu SUTO presents a patch to w3m to add support for multiple character encodings, and so Kyosuke Tokoro presents OS/2 support patch on the page "w3m for OS/2" (Japanese).


Table rendering algorithm of w3m (Japanese)

Cookie support of w3m (Japanese)

SSL support of w3m (Japanese)


Link (Japanese)


e-mail: okabek@guitar.ocn.ne.jp