Browse current document using external browser (use 2M and 3M to invoke second and third browser)
ESC M
Browse link using external browser (use 2ESC M and 3ESC M to invoke second and third browser)
File/Stream operation
U
Open URL
V
View new file
@
Execute shell command and load
#
Execute shell command and browse
Buffer operation
B
Back to the previous buffer
v
View HTML source
s
Select buffer
E
Edit buffer source
C-l
Redraw screen
R
Reload buffer
S
Save buffer
ESC s
Save source
ESC e
Edit buffer image
Buffer selection mode
k, C-p
Select previous buffer
j, C-n
Select next buffer
D
Delete current buffer
RET
Go to the selected buffer
Bookmark operation
ESC b
Load bookmark
ESC a
Add current to bookmark
Search
/,C-s
Search forward
?,C-r
Search backward
n
Search next
N
Search previous
C-w
Toggle wrap search mode
Dictionary look-up
M-w
Execute dictionary command (see README.dict)
M-W
Execute dictionary command for word at cursor
Mark operation
C-SPC
Set/unset mark
ESC p
Go to previous mark
ESC n
Go to next mark
"
Mark by regular expression
Miscellany
!
Execute shell command
H
Help (load this file)
o
Set option
C-k
Show cookie jar
C-c
Stop
C-z
Suspend
q
Quit (with confirmation, if you like)
Q
Quit without confirmation
Line-edit mode
C-f
Move cursor forward
C-b
Move cursor backward
C-h
Delete previous character
C-d
Delete current character
C-k
Kill everything after cursor
C-u
Kill everything before cursor
C-a
Move to the top of line
C-e
Move to the bottom of line
C-p
Fetch the previous string from the history list
C-n
Fetch the next string from the history list
TAB,SPC
Complete filename
RETURN
Accept
W3M(1) W3M(1)
NAME
w3m - a text based Web browser and pager
SYNOPSIS
w3m [options] [URL or filename]
DESCRIPTION
w3m is a World Wide Web (WWW) text based client. It has English and Japanese help files and an option menu and can be configured to use either lan‐
guage. It will display hypertext markup language (HTML) documents containing links to files residing on the local system, as well as files residing
on remote systems. It can display HTML tables and frames. In addition, it can be used as a "pager" in much the same manner as "more" or "less".
Current versions of w3m run on Unix (Solaris, SunOS, HP-UX, Linux, FreeBSD, and EWS4800) and on Microsoft Windows 9x/NT.
OPTIONS
At start up, w3m will load any local file or remote URL specified at the command line. For help with runtime options, press "H" while running w3m.
Command line options are:
-t tab set tab width
-r ignore backspace effect
-l line
# of preserved line (default 10000)
-I charset
document charset
-O charset
display/output charset
-B load bookmark
-bookmark file
specify bookmark file
-T type
specify content-type
-m internet message mode
-v visual startup mode
-M monochrome display
-N open URL of command line on each new tab
-F automatically render frame
-dump dump formatted page into stdout
-cols width
specify column width (used with -dump)
-ppc count
specify the number of pixels per character (4.0...32.0). Larger values will make tables narrower. [default 8.0]
-ppl count
specify the number of pixels per line (4.0...64.0)
-dump_source
dump page source into stdout
-dump_head
dump response of HEAD request into stdout
-dump_both
dump HEAD and source into stdout
-dump_extra
dump HEAD, source, and extra information into stdout
-post file
use POST method with file content
-header string
insert string as a header
+<num> goto <num> line
-num show line number
-no-proxy
don't use proxy
-4 IPv4 only (-o dns_order=4)
-6 IPv6 only (-o dns_order=6)
-no-mouse
don't use mouse
-cookie
use cookie.
-no-cookie
don't use cookie
-graph use graphic character
-no-graph
don't use graphic character
-S squeeze multiple blank lines
-W toggle wrap search mode
-X don't use termcap init/deinit
-title [=TERM]
set buffer name to terminal title string. If TERM is specified, use the TERM style title configuration.
-o opt=value
assign value to config option
-show-option
show all available config option
-config file
specify config file
-help show usage
-version
show w3m version
-reqlog
write request logfile
-debug DO NOT USE
EXAMPLES
To use w3m as a pager:
$ ls | w3m
To use w3m to translate HTML files:
$ cat foo.html | w3m -T text/html
or
$ cat foo.html | w3m -dump -T text/html >foo.txt
FILES
${HOME}/.w3m/config
configuration file
${HOME}/.w3m/keymap
key binding configuration file
${HOME}/.w3m/mouse
mouse configuration file
${HOME}/.w3m/cookie
cookie file
${HOME}/.w3m/history
history file
${HOME}/.w3m/passwd
passowrd and username file
${HOME}/.w3m/pre_form
form parameters file
${HOME}/.w3m/mailcap
external viewer configuration file
${HOME}/.w3m/mime.types
MIME types file
NOTES
This is the w3m 0.5.3 Release.
Please see the MANUAL.html file distributed with w3m for more detailed documentation.
Additional information about w3m may be found on its Japanese language Web site located at:
http://w3m.sourceforge.net/index.ja.html
or on its English version of the site at:
http://w3m.sourceforge.net/index.en.html
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
w3m has incorporated code from several sources. Hans J. Boehm, Alan J. Demers, Xerox Corp. and Silicon Graphics have the copyright of the GC
library comes with w3m package. Users have contributed patches and suggestions over time.
AUTHOR
Akinori ITO <aito@fw.ipsj.or.jp>
4th Berkeley Distribution Local W3M(1)