HOWTO: Use Links, a text mode browser for browsing Javadoc
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Links is a text mode web browser. It's free under the
Gnu Public License, supports tables and frames, has a small
memory footprint and is very fast. And it's perfect for Javadoc,
and can be launched from within NetBeans.
Many distributions of Linux (RedHat, Mandrake) come with Links
pre-installed. If you don't have it, you can download binaries
for Linux, Win32, OS/2, FreeBSD and BeOS here
To configure the IDE to use Links,
perform the following steps:
On the Tools menu, select Options.
Open the IDE Configuration | Server and External Tool Settings folder.
Right-click the Web Browsers node, choose New | External Browser, and type
Links as the browser's name.
Expand the Web Browsers node and select the Links node (which was created as a result of the previous step).
On the property sheet, click the Browser Executable property to edit it
Set the property to
On Unix:
xterm -geometry 130x50+50+50 +sb -e links {URL}
On Windows:
links {URL}
Choose Tools | Setup Wizard.
In the Web Browser combo box, select Links.
Click Finish to dismiss the wizard.
The next time you browse JavaDoc from within the IDE, the
Links browser will be started.
Links is generally useful as a fast, lightweight web browser. If
you want to use it as such and have to use a proxy, you may want
to start it as follows links -http-proxy proxyhost:port
http://www.somewhere.com.
Enjoy!
