Browse-url.el offers a neat function browse-url-lynx-emacs which opens up a Lynx browser within the current Emacs frame; this is very nice for binding so you can quickly follows hyperlinks and works very will with documentation and stuff like email in Gnus.

But I don't use Lynx, don't have it installed; looking through the source, there doesn't seem to be anything truly Lynx specific about it, and in fact, just substituting 'elinks' for 'lynx' (and removing one or two superfluous lines) seems to work fine.

Even better would be a general function which just runs a specified text browser (since there are a lot more than just ELinks and Lynx out there).  It wouldn't be terribly difficult to do - add a parameter to it, replace browse-url-lynx-emacs with a specialization of the generalization and you are more or less done (although I don't know how one would handle the various variables tweaking browse-url-lynx-emacs); I've attached a sort of example.

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