ELinks
Sign in to saveELinks is a text-based web browser for the operating systems DOS, Linux, and Windows. It is free and open-source software with a GNU General Public License (GPL) 2.0 only.
Key facts
- Software.name
- ELinks
- Software.screenshot
- Elinks-screenshot-of-elinks-page.png
- Software.caption
- An older version of this article rendered in ELinks
- Software.author
- Petr Baudiš, Jonas Fonseca
- Software.developer
- Witold Filipczyk
- Software.latest preview version
- 0.19.0rc1
- Software.programming language
- C, C++
- Software.operating system
- DOS, Linux, Windows
- Software.language
- English, Polish, Danish, French, Serbian, Hungarian, Czech, German,
- Software.genre
- Text-based web browser
- Software.license
- GPL 2.0 only
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Source code
ELinks is an advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web (HTTP/FTP/..) browser. ELinks can render both frames and tables, is highly customizable and can be extended via scripts. It is very portable and runs on a variety of platforms. Please see the SITES file for mirrors or other recommended sites. If you want to install ELinks on your computer, see the INSTALL file for further instructions. A good starting point is documentation files available in doc/, especially the file index.txt. If you want to write some patches, please first read the doc/hacking.txt document. If you want to add a new language or update the translation for an existing one, please read po/README document. Initially, ELinks was a development version of Links (Lynx-like text WWW browser), with more liberal features policy and development style. Its purpose was to provide an alternative to Links, and to test and tune various new features, but still provide good rock-solid releases inside stable branches. Why not contribute to Links instead? Well, first I made a bunch of patches for the original Links, but Mikulas wasn’t around to integrate them, so I started releasing my fork. When he came back, a significant number of them got refused because Mikulas did not like them as he just wouldn’t have any use for them himself. He aims to keep Links at a relatively closed feature set and merge only new features which he himself needs. It has the advantage that the tree is very narrow and the code is small and contains very little bloat. If you are more interested in the history and various Links clones and versions, you can examine the website at . Old ELinks team lost interest in ELinks development somehow. felinks (fork of elinks) is continuation of elinks based on the master branch of the original elinks repo with main releases (new features and other incompatible changes) no more often than 1 yearly, and point releases (bugfixes) no more often than once a month.
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- github.com/rkd77/elinks
- Image
- Elinks-screenshot-of-elinks-page.png
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- software version identifier
- 0.19.1
- source code repository URL
- repo.or.cz/w/elinks.git
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- ELinks
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ELinks is a text-based web browser for the operating systems DOS, Linux, and Windows. It is free and open-source software with a GNU General Public License (GPL) 2.0 only.
== History == It began in late 2001 as an experimental fork by Petr Baudiš of the Links Web browser, hence the E in the name. Since then, the E has come to stand for Enhanced or Extended. On 1 September 2004, Baudiš handed maintainership of the project over to Danish developer Jonas Fonseca, citing a lack of time and interest and a desire to spend more time coding rather than reviewing and organising releases.