Talk:ELinks

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Notability

(It might be nice to have the original talk page). Tedickey (talk) 23:50, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done Nothing except Wikiproject tagging though. DMacks (talk) 03:36, 27 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Google finds about 1.5 million hits for elinks, 200,000 for "elinks browser". Looks like not all of those are download-links. Here's a tutorial for instance. Tedickey (talk) 23:55, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A review Tedickey (talk) 00:08, 27 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I removed the prod tag. It may still end up in AFD, but I would be a strong keep. Not every *nix utility has a new york times article about it, not sure how to prove notability in these cases. Either way, you need to put whatever link you have in the article, not on the talk page. PHARMBOY ( moo ) 01:05, 27 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I was adding information here, to discuss with whoever wants to improve the topic. Tedickey (talk) 10:09, 27 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't see an article in NYT (from google hits). The topic needs a couple of sources to establish notability (vs notoriety ;-). Other than it being the most actively developed version of Links, I'm not sure what to say. Tedickey (talk) 10:14, 27 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Popularity contest results as of 2008-11-01
	elinks	elinks-lite	links	links2	lynx	lynx-cur
Debian "Inst"	5080[1]	152[2]	7270[3]	3205[4]	20157[5]	6364[6]
Debian "Vote"	2018	58	2506	780	3175	3398
Ubuntu "inst"[7]	14296	2600	16352	8013	73066	920
Ubuntu "vote"[8]	2398	361	3031	711	14568	192

Clearly, Links and Lynx each get more votes than ELinks does. OTOH, many Debian packages depend on "lynx | www-browser", causing Lynx to be installed; and once installed, Lynx 2.8.7dev10-2.1 has priority 45[9] in the /etc/alternatives system whereas ELinks 0.12~pre2.dfsg0 has 35[10], making the /usr/bin/www-browser symlink point to Lynx by default. 85.23.32.64 (talk) 11:41, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Edwards, Lewin (29 Aug 2006). "Multifunction multimedia machine, Part 5: Remote control is the new local interface". developerWorks. IBM. Retrieved 2008-11-01. ELinks is a simple text browser, good for very constrained systems or systems that lack a graphical display. Suggests using Links2 or ELinks as a user interface on top of a web server and CGI.

"Mr. Know-It-All - May 2002". The Southern California OS/2 User Group. May 2002. Retrieved 2008-11-01. A comparison of web browsers for OS/2, including "eLinks v 0.3".

Lawyer, David S. (August 2006). "Browsers for Text-Terminals". Text-Terminal-HOWTO. Retrieved 2008-11-01.

RainerFinck (November 4, 2006). "MultiBrowser Appliance". Virtual Appliance Marketplace. WMware, Inc. Retrieved 2008-11-01. Includes ELinks 0.10.4 and four other browsers for the purpose of testing web sites. It is not clear whether Internet Explorer needs to be installed separately.

Those were the most reliable-looking results from the first 1000 Yahoo hits for "ELinks". There were also many blogs, package updates, and vulnerability reports. 85.23.32.64 (talk) 08:16, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I hadn't see the popcon figures (they look plausible), and the other links correspond to what I see in google. So far what I get from looking around is that Elinks is notable because it's popular... It would be nice to have something more definite to say. Early on, I recall Links being promoted as "multithreaded" (regarding the background downloading), though the term was inaccurate - it's a separate process. The mouse and color are clutter - each of the text browsers does that in various ways. Comparing the Elinks and Links topics (and ignoring omissions), it's unclear what features differ between the two, since some of the features listed in Elinks are actually from Links, and most of the features in Links are provided in Elinks (but some of these are listed only in one topic). That reminds me that the comment about UTF-8 in Links is misleading, since neither browser (unless very recently) works in a UTF-8 locale, it refers to the character sets that the browser can read, and is originally based on tables from Lynx Tedickey (talk) 15:30, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

ELinks 0.12pre1 works better in UTF-8 locales than earlier versions did. There are however problems with case-insensitive searching, file names, bookmarks, Unicode control characters, and combining characters.[11]

From the evidence shown here so far, it appears to me that the existence of ELinks is notable enough, but there is not enough information in reliable secondary sources for a full article according to Wikipedia policies. So mentioning it at Links#ELinks and perhaps Comparison of web browsers should be enough. The current ELinks article looks useful to readers though and I wonder if it and its history could be transferred to e.g. Wikinfo, which AFAIK has looser requirements on sources. 85.23.32.64 (talk) 20:40, 19 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

whos bother

to see also

manual and shorcuts.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.90.196.227 (talk) 22:51, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Discontinued?

Tim@ marked ELinks discontinued on 3 Dec. 2015 in “Comparison of web browsers”. Is he wrong or has no one gotten around to updating ELinks’s article page by adding that it is discontinued?

I too am interested in whether the project is still ongoing. Any idea? Mrsuperboot (talk) 20:37, 31 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Possibly here: https://github.com/rkd77/elinks TEDickey (talk) 22:17, 31 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Seems like https://github.com/rkd77/elinks is now the de facto active version. They specifically mention that they renamed to elinks with the blessing of the previous lead maintainer. Jeremywakeman (talk) 12:36, 1 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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to much info ?

Why this about keybinding info was busted. Text browser unique feature are specific key binding allowing in milliseconds do a lot of work, this was cut off with no stated rationale. Resulting article is now smal and chrome. I understand that is harderd to profit on spampushin if text browser return to commmon usage. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.90.196.227 (talk) 08:52, 1 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]