20250913-using_edbrowse.txt

Within the past few days, I've been trying to use edbrowse more and
more. Why? Because it can do a whole lot of stuff. Even the latest
release, 3.8.9, can do IRC. It also does mail, file modification, etc.
That's a lot. And it would be all in one interface.

The "problem," as it were, is that it is very sparse on unofficial
documentation and text, ironically. What do I mean? I mean you can go
to sites and not read everything. The reason I had previously decided
to stick with Lynx + Links2 + Vivaldi is because the JS engine fails
on a lot of pages, reading a page is actually a bit cumbersome as it
requires using z to spit out text and the "normal" way of other
browsers displaying text is to type ,n which will spit out all the
text...and leave you with the last n lines viewable in the console
depending on height and width of the console.  You can't really scroll
or easily access the entire document. In my opinion, that is a major
negative.

But I've gone back to it. Yes, the lack of display of data is still
there, but it's incredible having one application that does all those
things. I mean it could conceivably replace Lynx, vifm, irssi, and vim
in one program. Will I do this? Well, I mean I'm currently typing this
post in vi or vim on a pubnix, so probably not. Will I use it more
than I have been? Probably.