Lynx is the best ❤️
2025-09-19
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I played around with a number of text mode gopher
browsers, but none of them have really satisfied me.
So I returned to Lynx, as I found it gives me 
the best gopher results overall.

Unlike Chawan it doesn't display images in terminals
such as Ghostty or Kitty, but the gopher protocol
doesn't display inline images anyway.

I found that adding a h link in gophermap to a html 
file that has a mailto link works fine in Lynx. 

Lynx config is placed in ~/.config/lynx/lynx.cfg

.bashrc contains:

export LYNX_CFG=$HOME/.config/lynx/lynx.cfg

~/.config/lynx/lynx.cfg contains:

# include the master config file
INCLUDE:/etc/lynx.cfg
# modifications
CHARACTER_SET:utf-8
ASSUME_CHARSET:utf-8
ASSUME_LOCAL_CHARSET:utf-8
OUTGOING_MAIL_CHARSET:utf-8
SYSTEM_MAIL:/usr/bin/msmtp
MAKE_LINKS_FOR_ALL_IMAGES:TRUE
XLOADIMAGE_COMMAND:nsxiv %s &

I also verified ~/.lynxrc
which is generated by the 'o' command in Lynx
and contains other settings.

Lynx website:
https://lynx.invisible-island.net/lynx-resources.html