From c1228ab0ce63e295b27a39e38b4bce4d1bb47cb4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Seemant Kulleen Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 21:02:16 +0000 Subject: Added long description, thanks to James in bug #135489 (Portage version: 2.1_rc4-r3) --- www-client/surfraw/metadata.xml | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) (limited to 'www-client/surfraw/metadata.xml') diff --git a/www-client/surfraw/metadata.xml b/www-client/surfraw/metadata.xml index 4e7e5167dc97..b83bf4150edc 100644 --- a/www-client/surfraw/metadata.xml +++ b/www-client/surfraw/metadata.xml @@ -11,4 +11,20 @@ seemant@gentoo.org Seemant Kulleen + +Surfraw provides a fast unix command line interface to a variety of popular WWW +search engines and other artifacts of power. It reclaims google, altavista, +babelfish, dejanews, freshmeat, research index, slashdot and many others from +the false-prophet, pox-infested heathen lands of html-forms, placing these +wonders where they belong, deep in unix heartland, as god loving extensions to +the shell. + +Surfraw abstracts the browser away from input. Doing so lets it get on with what +it's good at. Browsing. Interpretation of linguistic forms is handed back to the +shell, which is what it, and human beings are good at. Combined with +netscape-remote or incremental text browsers, such as links +(http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mikulas/links/), w3m (http://www.w3m.org/), +and screen(1) a Surfraw liberateur is capable of navigating speeds that leave +GUI tainted idolaters agape with fear and wonder. + -- cgit v1.2.3-65-gdbad