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w3m is an open source text-based web browser. It has trend lines for tables, frames, SSL connections, color and possibly inline images in suitable terminals. Usually, it renders web sites inside the form when true to their original layout when imaginable.

A title "w3m" stands for "WWW-wo miru", which is Japanese for "see the WWW".

w3m is too utilized per Emacs text editor via the w3m.el Emacs Lisp module. This module gives convenient browsing of webpage within of Emacs. Nevertheless, giving of webpage international relations and security network't neutralise Emacs Lisp; only final display is handled within Emacs Lisp sustaining a giving treat the w3m application. And then, unlike a slower Emacs/W3 which does both giving & display computation totally around Emacs Lisp, a operation of w3m.el is lot sooner than Emacs/W3.

There are 2 forks of w3m that adds support for multiple character encryption & more features non in the original:

  • Hironori Sakamoto’s w3m-m17n (“m17nâ€? stands for “multilingualizationâ€?), and
  • Kiyokazu Suto’s w3mmee (“meeâ€? stands for "Multi-Encoding Extension").

    • w3m Homepage
    The official homepage of w3m, a text-based browser and pager from Japan.

    w3m
    A collection of w3m resources, including screenshots, manuals, and information about various patches.

    Emacs-w3m
    A simple Emacs interface to w3m.

    w3m-mee
    A variant of w3m with support for multiple character encodings.

    Extension patches of w3m
    Various patches, some of which have been merged into w3m.

    w3m-inu
    A developer's release that integrates various patches from the w3m-dev and w3m-dev-en mailing lists.




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