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# \# ELinks - an advanced web browser
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ELinks is an advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web
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(HTTP/FTP/..) browser. ELinks can render both frames and tables, is
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highly customizable and can be extended via scripts. It is very portable
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and runs on a variety of platforms.
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The ELinks official website is available at <http://elinks.cz/>.
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Please see the SITES file for mirrors or other recommended sites. If you
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want to install ELinks on your computer, see the INSTALL file for
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further instructions.
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A good starting point is documentation files available in doc/,
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especially the file index.txt.
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If you want to request features or report bugs, see community
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information at <http://elinks.cz/community.html> and feedback
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information available at <http://elinks.cz/feedback.html>.
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If you want to write some patches, please first read the doc/hacking.txt
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document.
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If you want to add a new language or update the translation for an
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existing one, please read po/README document.
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If you want to write some documentation, well, you’re welcome! ;)
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# Historical notes
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Initially, ELinks was a development version of Links (Lynx-like text WWW
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browser), with more liberal features policy and development style. Its
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purpose was to provide an alternative to Links, and to test and tune
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various new features, but still provide good rock-solid releases inside
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stable branches.
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Why not contribute to Links instead? Well, first I made a bunch of
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patches for the original Links, but Mikulas wasn’t around to integrate
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them, so I started releasing my fork. When he came back, a significant
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number of them got refused because Mikulas did not like them as he just
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wouldn’t have any use for them himself. He aims to keep Links at a
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relatively closed feature set and merge only new features which he
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himself needs. It has the advantage that the tree is very narrow and the
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code is small and contains very little bloat.
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ELinks, on the contrary, aims to provide a full-featured web browser,
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superior to both lynx and w3m and with the power (but not slowness and
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memory usage) of Mozilla, Konqueror and similar browsers. However, to
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prevent drastic bloating of the code, the development is driven in the
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course of modularization and separation of add-on modules (like cookies,
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bookmarks, ssl, scripting etc).
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For more details about ELinks history, please see
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<http://elinks.cz/history.html>.
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If you are more interested in the history and various Links clones and
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versions, you can examine the website at <http://links.sf.net/>.
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Old ELinks team lost interest in ELinks development somehow. felinks
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(fork of elinks) is continuation of elinks based on the master branch of
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the original elinks repo with main releases (new features and other
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incompatible changes) no more often than 1 yearly, and point releases
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(bugfixes) no more often than once a month.
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Repository was renamed to elinks on 2020-12-01 with Petr’s approval.
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Main repo is at <https://github.com/rkd77/elinks.git>.
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vim: textwidth=80
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