elinks
(1)
Name
elinks - like alternative character mode WWW browser
Synopsis
elinks [OPTION]... [URL]...
Description
The Elinks text-browser ELINKS(1)
NAME
elinks - lynx-like alternative character mode WWW browser
SYNOPSIS
elinks [OPTION]... [URL]...
DESCRIPTION
ELinks is a text mode WWW browser, supporting colors, table
rendering, background downloading, menu driven configuration
interface, tabbed browsing and slim code.
Frames are supported. You can have different file formats
associated with external viewers. mailto: and telnet: are
supported via external clients.
ELinks can handle both local files and remote URLs. The main
supported remote URL protocols are HTTP, HTTPS (with SSL
support compiled in) and FTP. Additional protocol support
exists for BitTorrent finger, Gopher, SMB and NNTP.
The homepage of ELinks can be found at <http://elinks.cz/>,
where the ELinks manual is also hosted.
OPTIONS
Most options can be set in the user interface or config
file, so usually you do not need to care about them. Note
that this list is roughly equivalent to the output of
running ELinks with the option --long-help.
-anonymous [0|1] (default: 0)
Restricts ELinks so it can run on an anonymous account.
Local file browsing, downloads, and modification of
options will be disabled. Execution of viewers is
allowed, but entries in the association table can't be
added or modified.
-auto-submit [0|1] (default: 0)
Automatically submit the first form in the given URLs.
-base-session <num> (default: 0)
Used internally when opening ELinks instances in new
windows. The ID maps to information that will be used
when creating the new instance. You don't want to use
it.
-config-dir <str> (default: "")
Path of the directory ELinks will read and write its
config and runtime state files to instead of ~/.elinks.
If the path does not begin with a '/' it is assumed to
be relative to your HOME directory.
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-config-dump
Print a configuration file with options set to the
built-in defaults to stdout.
-config-file <str> (default: "elinks.conf")
Name of the configuration file that all configuration
options will be read from and written to. It should be
relative to config-dir.
-config-help
Print help for configuration options and exit.
-default-mime-type (alias for mime.default_type)
The default MIME type used for documents of unknown
type.
-default-keys [0|1] (default: 0)
When set, all keybindings from configuration files will
be ignored. It forces use of default keybindings and
will reset user-defined ones on save.
-dump [0|1] (default: 0)
Print formatted plain-text versions of given URLs to
stdout.
-dump-charset (alias for document.dump.codepage)
Codepage used when formatting dump output.
-dump-width (alias for document.dump.width)
Width of the dump output.
-eval
Specify configuration file directives on the
command-line which will be evaluated after all
configuration files has been read. Example usage:
-eval 'set protocol.file.allow_special_files = 1'
-force-html
Makes ELinks assume documents of unknown types are HTML.
Useful when using ELinks as an external viewer from
MUAs. This is equivalent to -default-mime-type
text/html.
-?, -h, -help
Print usage help and exit.
-localhost [0|1] (default: 0)
Restricts ELinks to work offline and only connect to
servers with local addresses (ie. 127.0.0.1). No
connections to remote servers will be permitted.
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-long-help
Print detailed usage help and exit.
-lookup
Look up specified host and print all DNS resolved IP
addresses.
-no-connect [0|1] (default: 0)
Run ELinks as a separate instance instead of connecting
to an existing instance. Note that normally no runtime
state files (bookmarks, history, etc.) are written to
the disk when this option is used. See also
-touch-files.
-no-home [0|1] (default: 0)
Disables creation and use of files in the user specific
home configuration directory (~/.elinks). It forces
default configuration values to be used and disables
saving of runtime state files.
-no-numbering (alias for document.dump.numbering)
Prevents printing of link number in dump output. Note
that this really affects only -dump, nothing else.
-no-references (alias for document.dump.references)
Prevents printing of references (URIs) of document links
in dump output. Note that this really affects only
-dump, nothing else.
-remote
Control a remote ELinks instance by passing commands to
it. The option takes an additional argument containing
the method which should be invoked and any parameters
that should be passed to it. For ease of use, the
additional method argument can be omitted in which case
any URL arguments will be opened in new tabs in the
remote instance. Following is a list of the supported
methods:
o ping(): look for a remote instance
o openURL(): prompt URL in current tab
o openURL(URL): open URL in current tab
o openURL(URL, new-tab): open URL in new tab
o openURL(URL, new-window): open URL in new window
o addBookmark(URL): bookmark URL
o infoBox(text): show text in a message box
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o xfeDoCommand(openBrowser): open new window
-session-ring <num> (default: 0)
ID of session ring this ELinks session should connect
to. ELinks works in so-called session rings, whereby
all instances of ELinks are interconnected and share
state (cache, bookmarks, cookies, and so on). By
default, all ELinks instances connect to session ring 0.
You can change that behaviour with this switch and form
as many session rings as you want. Obviously, if the
session-ring with this number doesn't exist yet, it's
created and this 'ELinks' instance will become the
master instance (that usually doesn't matter for you as
a user much). Note that you usually don't want to use
this unless you're a developer and you want to do some
testing - if you want the ELinks instances each running
standalone, rather use the -no-connect command-line
option. Also note that normally no runtime state files
are written to the disk when this option is used. See
also -touch-files.
-source [0|1] (default: 0)
Print given URLs in source form to stdout.
-touch-files [0|1] (default: 0)
When enabled, runtime state files (bookmarks, history,
etc.) are written to disk, even when -no-connect or
-session-ring is used. The option has no effect if not
used in conjunction with any of these options.
-verbose <num> (default: 1)
The verbose level controls what messages are shown at
start up and while running:
o 0: means only show serious errors
o 1: means show serious errors and warnings
o 2: means show all messages
-version
Print ELinks version information and exit.
Generated using output from ELinks version 0.11.7.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
COMSPEC, SHELL
The shell used for File -> OS Shell on DOS/Windows and
UNIX, respectively.
EDITOR
The program to use for external editor (when editing
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textareas).
ELINKS_CONFDIR
The location of the directory containing configuration
files. If not set the default is ~/.elinks/.
ELINKS_TWTERM, LINKS_TWTERM
The command to run when selecting File -> New window and
if TWDISPLAY is defined (default twterm -e).
ELINKS_XTERM, LINKS_XTERM
The command to run when selecting File -> New window and
if DISPLAY is defined (default xterm -e).
FTP_PROXY, HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY
The host to proxy the various protocol traffic through.
NO_PROXY
A comma separated list of URLs which should not be
proxied.
HOME
The path to the users home directory. Used when
expanding ~/.
WWW_HOME
Homepage location (as in lynx(1)).
FILES
Configuration files controlled by ELinks are located in the
user configuration directory, defaulting to ~/.elinks/. In
addition to the files listed below, a user defined CSS
stylesheet can be defined using the document.css.stylesheet
option.
/usr/etc/elinks/elinks.conf
Site-wide configuration file.
~/.elinks/elinks.conf
Per-user config file, loaded after site-wide
configuration.
~/.elinks/bookmarks
Bookmarks file.
~/.elinks/cookies
Cookies file.
~/.elinks/exmodehist
Exmode history file.
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~/.elinks/formhist
Form history file.
~/.elinks/globhist
History file containing most recently visited URLs.
~/.elinks/gotohist
GoTo URL dialog history file.
~/.elinks/hooks.{js,lua,pl,py,rb,scm}
Browser scripting hooks.
~/.elinks/searchhist
Search history file.
~/.elinks/socket
Internal ELinks socket for communication between its
instances.
~/.mailcap, /etc/mailcap
Mappings of MIME types to external handlers.
~/.mime.types, /etc/mime.types
Mappings of file extensions to MIME types.
BUGS
Please report any other bugs you find to the either the
ELinks mailing list at <elinks-users@linuxfromscratch.org>
or if you prefer enter them into the bug tracking system
<http://bugzilla.elinks.cz/>. More information about how to
get in contact with developers and getting help can be found
on the community page <http://elinks.cz/community.html>.
LICENSE
ELinks is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
<http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html> as published by the
Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.
AUTHORS
The Links browser - on which ELinks is based - was written
by Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>.
ELinks was written by Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>. See file
AUTHORS in the source tree for a list of people contributing
to this project.
This manual page was written by Peter Gervai
<grin@tolna.net>, using excerpts from a (yet?) unknown Links
fan for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by
others). Contributions from Francis A. Holop. Extended,
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clarified and made more up-to-date by Petr Baudis
<pasky@ucw.cz>. Updated by Zas <zas@norz.org>. The
conversion to Asciidoc and trimming was done by Jonas
Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
attributes:
+---------------+--------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+--------------------+
|Availability | web/browser/elinks |
+---------------+--------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+--------------------+
SEE ALSO
elinkskeys(5), elinks.conf(5), links(1), lynx(1), w3m(1),
wget(1)
NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original
community source was downloaded from
http://elinks.or.cz/download/elinks-0.11.7.tar.bz2
Further information about this software can be found on the
open source community website at http://elinks.or.cz/.
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