# test: posting via links (a lynx variant)

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**Created:** [March 19, 2007, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-posting-via-links-a-lynx-variant/396559 "2007-03-19T14:44:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-posting-via-links-a-lynx-variant/396559/1 "2007-03-19T14:44:59Z")

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just fooling around with a text-based browser

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**Author:** ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-posting-via-links-a-lynx-variant/396559/2 "2007-03-20T04:39:55Z")

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Wow, I remember Lynx and Pine 🙂 I loved Pine.

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**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-posting-via-links-a-lynx-variant/396559/3 "2007-03-20T15:35:08Z")

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Links works pretty well with vBulletin if you’ve got a huge freaking monitor (I was at 1680 x 1050 and using it all), as it makes an effort to mimic the graphical arrangement of elements… the box of smilies was a foot off to the right of the text entry box! Lots of arrow-key work to get cursor focus where you want it.

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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-posting-via-links-a-lynx-variant/396559/4 "2007-03-20T22:46:36Z")

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I like lynx and links, and I’ve posted with them many times. I also use [the graphical links variant](http://links.twibright.com/) (requires X11, not exactly pretty) and what’s likely the best text-based browser, [w3m](http://w3m.sourceforge.net/). w3m draws tables correctly using the line-drawing characters in Unicode and, when compiled right and run in an xterm, will display graphics inline. Which looks reasonably odd.