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Browsing Gemini with Lynx at portal.mozz.us =========================================== A couple of years ago, I posted on the Lynx mailing list about adding Gemini support to the browser.[1] That's never happened. It's too bad, because Lynx supports a *lot* of protocols: gopher, http(s), telnet, ftp, nntp, wais, finger... the list goes on.[2] I like Lynx a lot and I want it to be my go-to browser in the terminal for Gopher, Gemini, and the web. So in the absence of built-in Gemini support, I browse Gemini sites through Michael Lazar's great SmolNet Portal at portal.mozz.us. Until yesterday, Lynx suffered from a minor compatibility problem with the portal. While the portal rendered gemtext line breaks properly in other browsers, the line breaks were not recognized by Lynx, which displayed a wall of unbroken text. So I opened an issue on Michael Lazar's Github page for gemini-portal[3] and he fixed the problem by the end of the day, switching from css-based line-breaking to inserting the html <br> tag into gemini documents. He also explained how to change a setting in Lynx to make it render the <br> tag better. In the lynx.cfg file (at /etc/lynx/lynx.cfg in Debian 12), uncomment COLLAPSE_BR_TAGS:TRUE and then change it to COLLAPSE_BR_TAGS:FALSE I thought I'd spread the information and add a thank you to Michael Lazar. I've now raised two issues on Github that he's addressed and the other one was a lot more work: he upgraded pygopherd to Python 3. --------------- [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lynx-dev/2020-09/msg00007.html [2] https://lynx.invisible-island.net/lynx_help/lynx_url_support.html [3] https://github.com/michael-lazar/gemini-portal/issues/4