Emacs as a Web browser

Bill Perry's w3-mode turns Emacs into a browser for the WorldWideWeb. If you are running X Windows and Lucid Emacs or Epoch, this is a full graphical browser; if you are running any other form of Emacs, this is a character-mode browser. W3-mode is one of only two browsers at the moment which support HTML3 (the other being Arena).

To get w3-mode running, type Esc x w3 RET (it will pick up your home page address from the environment variableWWW_HOME). To leave w3-mode, press q. For help, press ?. Other common commands are:

• Move point to the next link: TAB or f
• Move point to previous link: b
• Follow the current link: RET
• Go to a specific URL: ^o then type the URL
• Jump to top of current document: <
• Jump to bottom of current document: >
• Display list of commands: Esc x describe-mode