[BRLTTY] Firelynx v0.1.0

Adrian P. van Bloois adrian at pa0rda.nl
Sat Jun 13 21:26:09 UTC 2026


On Fri, Jun 12, 2026 at 09:42:40PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Jun 2026, Adrian P. van Bloois wrote:
> 
> > After this my prompt changed, (firelynx) was inserted at teh beginning.
> > This was not documented so I consider this a misfeature.
> > I started firelynx of course, couldn't wait, my fave command  is lynx
> > -book to go to my search engine, not google but duckduckgo.
> > firelynx -book diidn't work  to my disappointment.
> > Theen:
> > firelynx www.duckduckgo.com/lite    and I entered some search term, this
> > led to chaos. Also every time things were on top of my screen about
> > minimal, balanced and all, no idea what they are about.
> > It works, but not by far the way I hoped it would.
> 
> Sorry for your disappointment. I should bring your attention to an 
> important detail which _is_ clearly documented early at the top of the 
> README file:
> 
> ️   **EXPERIMENTAL ALPHA SOFTWARE** - Firelynx is in early development.
>    While functional for many websites, expect bugs, limitations, and 
>    breaking changes. Use at your own risk and keep backups of 
>    important work.
> 
> This software is offered to you for free. I develop it on my own time.
> You are welcome to help making it better, or otherwise just ignore it.
I certainly won't ignore it, I appreciate the initiative far too much.
I've been waiting decades for something like this.
Don't take my remarks as criticism, they were just observations from a
(maybe over) enthousiastic user. Take my remarks as points of
improvement, I probably come up with more, I have been using lynx for a
very very long time. So I know all the restrictions it has, far too many.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> 
> Nicolas

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