1 ### Feature configuration file
3 # This file contains various compile-time configuration settings, which you can
4 # adjust below. You can fine-tune the ELinks binary to include really only what
5 # you want it to. It acts as a front-end to the configure script in the sense
6 # that it is possible to control any features in this file by passing arguments
7 # to the configure script. In fact any arguments given to the script will
8 # overrule the values set in this file.
10 # There are still some things which are to be adjusted only directly through the
11 # configure script arguments though, so check ./configure --help out as well!
13 # All dependency checking is done by the configure script so even though a
14 # feature is enabled here it is possible that it will be disabled at compile
15 # time if the dependencies are not met. Check the features.log file generated
16 # by the configure script to make sure.
20 # All features that can be controlled using this file are already set to their
21 # default values. The syntax used is hopefully familiar to most people.
23 # '#' chars start a comment that runs until the end of the line.
25 # The features are controlled by setting the various CONFIG_<FEATURE> variables
26 # to either 'yes' or 'no' depending on whether it should be enabled or disabled.
27 # So in order to disable bookmark support a line in this file should say:
31 # It is also possible to simply comment out the line in order to disable it.
32 # Therefore, if the default doesn't suit you, you can either comment it out or
33 # set it to the value you desire.
35 ### Notes for developers
37 # Please strive to keep the format of all entries uniform, it will make it
38 # easier for us as well as for the users. Do not forget to accurately describe
39 # the feature and also the impact of enabling/disabling it. Follow the format of
40 # existing comments. Follow the example of XBEL when adding features which also
41 # need some detection in configure.in.
43 # Not everything is suitable for an entry in this file, maybe it would be
44 # happier directly in the configure.in. If it is really purely question of
45 # system support (X2, HAVE_SA_STORAGE), and it makes no sense for the user to
46 # touch it, do not include it here.
48 # Also, use your common sense. (Not that I would trust it that much... ;-))
55 # ELinks has built-in hierarchic bookmarks support. Open the bookmarks manager
56 # by pressing 's'. When bookmarks are enabled, also support for the internal
57 # ELinks bookmarks format is always compiled in.
59 # This is a favourite target for disabling in various embedded applications.
60 # It all depends on your requirements.
62 # Also read the ``The Ultimate Bookmarks Guide'' in doc/bookmarks.txt
71 # ELinks also supports universal XML bookmarks format called XBEL, also
72 # supported by e.g. Galeon, various "always-have-my-bookmarks" websites and
73 # number of universal bookmark converters.
75 # Frequently, you know you will not need it, then you can of course happily
76 # forcibly remove support for it and save few bytes.
78 # Default: enabled if libexpat is found and bookmarks are enabled
80 CONFIG_XBEL_BOOKMARKS=yes
85 # Support for HTTP cookies --- a data token which the server sends the client
86 # once and then the client sends it back along each request to the server. This
87 # mechanism is crucial e.g. for keeping HTTP sessions (you "log in" to a site,
88 # and from then on the site recognizes you usually because of the cookie), but
89 # also for various banner systems, remembering values filled to various forms,
90 # and so on. You can further tune the ELinks behaviour at runtime (whether to
91 # accept/send cookies, ask for confirmation when accepting a cookie etc).
93 # This functionality is usually quite important and you should not disable it
94 # unless you really know what are you doing.
103 # The famous Competing Browser has that annoying thing which pops up when you
104 # submit a form, offering to remember it and pre-fill it the next time. And yes,
105 # ELinks can do that too! You will still need to also enable this manually at
106 # document.browse.forms.show_formhist.
108 # Many people find it extremely annoying (including pasky), however some others
109 # consider it extremely handy and will sacrifice almost anything to get it. It
110 # will not do any harm to have this compiled-in as long as you will leave it
111 # turned off (which is also the default configuration).
120 # This device records each and every page you visit (to a configurable limit).
121 # You can browse through this history in the history manager (press 'h'). Do
122 # not confuse this with the "session history", recording history of your
123 # browsing in the frame of one session (session history is the thing you move
124 # through when pressing 'back' and 'unback' or which you see in the
125 # File::History menu).
127 # Global history does not care about the order you visited the pages in, it just
128 # records that you visited it, when did you do that and the title of the page.
129 # Then, you can see when did you visit a link last time (and what was the title
130 # of the target document at that time), links can be coloured as visited etc.
132 # If you disable this feature, you will not lose any crucial functionality, just
133 # some relatively minor convenience features, which can nevertheless prove
134 # sometimes very practical.
143 # ELinks uses a MIME system for determining the content type of documents and
144 # configuring programs for external handling. By default the option system can
145 # be used to configure how media types are handled. More info about how to set
146 # up the MIME handling using the option system can be found in the doc/mime.html
149 # Below are listed some additional ways to do it.
153 # Mailcap files describe what program - on the local system - can be used to
154 # handle a media type. The file format is defined in RFC 1524 and more info
155 # including examples can be found in the doc/mailcap.html file.
157 # This is very useful especially for clean interoperability with other
158 # MIME-aware applications and fitting nicely into the UNIX system, where this is
159 # the standard way of specifying MIME handlers. If you are not interested in
160 # that, you can still use the internal MIME associations system, though.
168 # Mimetypes file can be used to specify the relation between media types and
171 # Basically same thing applies here as for the mailcap support.
178 ### IPv6 Protocol Support
180 # You know this thing that was designed to obsolete IPv4 but only pasky,
181 # weirdos and projects supported with big funds really use. ;-)
183 # Default: enabled if the system supports it
190 # The goto dialog through which new URIs can be entered is an essential part of
191 # browsing in ELinks. This feature makes the dialog more powerful by making it
192 # possible to extend how entered text is handled through a set of rewrite rules
193 # (see protocol.rewrite options).
195 # There are two types of rules: simple and smart ones.
197 # Simple rewriting rules are basically URI abbreviations, making it possible to
198 # map a word to the full URI. They can also be used for hierarchic navigation to
199 # ease moving from some nested directory to the parent directory or doing other
200 # stuff with the current URI. For example, when you type 'gg' into the goto
201 # dialog, you will be materialized at Google's homepage.
203 # Smart rules can take arguments and therefore enable more advanced rewriting.
204 # The arguments could be search words to google for or a lookup query for a
205 # dictionary. Eg. type 'gg:Petr Baudis king of ELinks cvs'.
207 # This feature is also available in a more powerful form in the Lua and Guile
208 # extensions, so if you plan to or already use those, you won't miss anything by
209 # disabling this feature (besides easier and better integrated configuration).
213 CONFIG_URI_REWRITE=yes
216 ### BitTorrent Protocol Support
218 # The BitTorrent protocol is a protocol for distributing files in a peer-to-peer
219 # (P2P) manner. It uses the HTTP protocol for communicating with a central
220 # server and a peer-to-peer (P2P) protocol for exchanging file pieces betweens
221 # peer downloaders. The integrity of file pieces downloaded from peers are
222 # checked using cryptographic hashing (SHA1).
224 # Downloads using BitTorrent are started by first downloading a .torrent file
225 # with the MIME type "application/x-bittorrent". The file contains information
226 # which enables ELinks to ask a central server, called a tracker, for
227 # information about other downloading peers and start downloading from and
230 # At any time, an external handler can always be defined to take precedence of
231 # the internal BitTorrent client and the internal client can always be forced
232 # by prefixing the URI of the .torrent file with "bittorrent:"
234 # NOTE: The BitTorrent support is still experimental.
241 ### Local CGI Support
243 # ELinks can (like w3m or lynx) execute certain executable files stored on the
244 # local disks as CGIs, when you target it on them (through a URI of the 'file'
245 # scheme). ELinks emulates the complete CGI environment, like the program would
246 # be executed by a web server. See the protocol.file.cgi options tree for
247 # detailed runtime configuration.
249 # Some people just write their bookmark management application as Perl CGI
250 # script and then access it from the web browser using this feature, not needing
251 # any web server or so. Therefore, this is a great possible way to extended the
252 # browser capabilities.
254 # Even when you compile this in, you need to enable this yet in the
255 # configuration, and even then only CGI files passing certain user-defined
256 # filters (path-based) will be allowed to be executed (and there are certain
257 # other security barriers in place).
259 # Default: disabled, available if setenv() or putenv() is found
264 ### Data URI protocol
266 # The data URI protocol is defined in RFC 2397 and allows inclusion of small
267 # data items as "immediate" data, as if it had been included externally.
269 # A data URL might be used for arbitrary types of data. The URI
271 # data:,A%20brief%20note
273 # encodes the text/plain string "A brief note", which might be useful in a
281 ### Finger User Information Protocol Support
283 # The finger protocol is a simple protocol defined in RFC 1288. The server
284 # return a friendly, human-oriented status report on either the system at the
285 # moment or a particular person in depth such as whether a user is currently
286 # logged-on, e-mail address, full name etc. As well as standard user
287 # information, it displays the contents of ".plan" file in the user's home
288 # directory. Often this file (maintained by the user) contained either useful
289 # information about the user's current activities, or alternatively all manner
292 # It is most often implemented on Unix or Unix-like systems however due to
293 # security and privacy reasons it is usually disabled or only allowed locally on
300 ### File Service Protocol
302 # File Service Protocol (FSP) is a very lightweight UDP based protocol for
303 # transferring files. FSP has many benefits over FTP, mainly for running
304 # anonymous archives. FSP protocol is valuable in all kinds of environments
305 # because it is one of the only TCP/IP protocols that is not aggressive about
306 # bandwidth, while still being sufficiently fault tolerant.
308 # FSP is what anonymous FTP *should* be!
310 # See http://fsp.sourceforge.net/ for more info.
316 ### File Transfer Protocol Support
318 # The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a software standard for transferring
319 # computer files between machines with widely different operating systems.
321 # Many sites that run FTP servers enable so-called "anonymous ftp". Under
322 # this arrangement, users do not need an account on the server. By default,
323 # the account name for the anonymous access is 'anonymous'. This account
324 # does not need a password, but users are commonly asked to send their email
325 # addresses as their passwords for authentication (protocol.ftp.anon_passwd),
326 # but there is no verification.
328 # See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ftp .
335 ### Gopher Protocol Support
337 # Gopher is a distributed document search and retrieval network protocol
338 # designed for the Internet in RFC 1436. The need for gopher arose in in the
339 # early days of the hypertext Internet where the number of documents that were
340 # being published in campus and research environments could not easily be
341 # distributed using known protocols like FTP because these documents were stored
342 # not in one place, but in many computers connected to the Internet.
344 # The support works much like local file browsing with directories (aka. menus)
345 # and various file types that can be downloaded and viewed.
347 # It is still very experimental and the CSO phone-book protocol is not
355 ### NNTP Protocol Support
357 # Network news transport protocol support makes it possible to access nntp
358 # and news servers and read postings. It is still very experimental and is
359 # far from being considered a ``news reader''.
361 # It is possible to list news groups on a server, articles in a news group
362 # and retrieve articles by their number or message-id.
369 ### SMB Protocol Support
371 # ELinks supports browsing over the SMB protocol (URI 'smb' scheme), using the
372 # smbclient program as back-end. Therefore, in order to have this enabled, you
373 # will need to install Samba (or at least just the smbclient part, if you can
374 # install it separately).
376 # Unfortunately, ELinks doesn't yet properly validate the file name passed to
377 # smbclient, and this caused vulnerability CVE-2006-5925 (bug 841). To close
378 # the vulnerability, configure.in now disables the SMB protocol regardless
379 # of what you specify here. If you want to use SMB, please wait for ELinks
380 # 0.12.0 or see bug 844.
387 ### Cascading Style Sheets
389 # Simplistic CSS support. It is still very much in it's infancy so don't expect
390 # too much. If you have use of background colors enabled more pages will have
391 # the intended background color. Also quite a few additional text attributes are
392 # applied. One example is highlighting of search words on Google's cached pages.
394 # There are options to disable both imported style sheets to minimize network
395 # traffic and whether to use CSS at all. Also a default style sheet can be
396 # defined to control the basic layout in the HTML renderer.
403 ### HTML Highlighting
405 # Makes it possible to view HTML source with the markup highlighted in colors
406 # configurable using CSS. It also makes values of referencing attributes
407 # accessible like the href="<uri>" attribute in <a> elements.
409 # The HTML highlighting uses components of an experimental DOM implementation
410 # still in progress so enabling this feature will add a considerable amount of
411 # code to the compiled binary. On the other hand it will help to debug what will
412 # hopefully evolve into the next generation document renderer.
414 # Default: disabled, requires that CSS is enabled
416 CONFIG_HTML_HIGHLIGHT=no
419 ### ECMAScript (JavaScript) Browser Scripting
421 # By enabling this feature, certain parts of ELinks, such as the goto URL
422 # dialog, may be extended using ECMAScript (aka. JavaScript) scripts. This can
423 # be useful to optimise your usage of ELinks.
425 # For example you can define shortcuts (or abbreviations) for URLs of sites you
426 # often visit by having a goto URL hook expand them. This can also be achieved
427 # with the URI rewrite feature (CONFIG_URI_REWRITE), however it is not as
428 # powerful as doing it with scripting.
430 # Default: enabled if Spidermonkey is found
432 CONFIG_SM_SCRIPTING=yes
437 # ELinks may be controlled not only by keyboard, but also by mouse to quite some
438 # extent. You can select links, menu items, scroll document, click at buttons
439 # etc, and it should hopefully work. ELinks supports mouse control by GPM, xterm
440 # mouse reporting and TWAIN's twterm mouse reporting.
442 # It is generally nice convenience and doesn't cost too much. However, you can
443 # do everything with keyboard as you can with mouse. Also note that the xterm
444 # mouse reporting takes control over the terminal so that copy and pasting text
445 # from and to ELinks has to be done by holding down the Shift key.
452 ### 88 Colors in Terminals
454 # Define to add support for using 88 colors in terminals. Note that this
455 # requires a capable terminal emulator, such as:
457 # - Thomas Dickey's XTerm, version 111 or later (check which version you have
458 # with xterm -version) compiled with --enable-88-color.
460 # - Rxvt, version 2.7.9 or later compiled with --enable-88-color.
462 # You will still need to enable this at runtime for a given terminal in terminal
463 # options, or set your $TERM variable to xterm-88color - then, ELinks will
464 # automatically configure itself to make use of all the available terminal
465 # features, while still acting sensibly when you happen to run it in an xterm
466 # w/o the 88 colors support.
468 # When enabled, the memory usage is somewhat increased even when running in mono
469 # and 16 colors mode (the memory consumption can be especially remarkable when
470 # rendering very large documents and/or using very large terminals). However,
471 # when you actually run it in the suitable terminal, it looks really impressive,
478 ### 256 Colors in Terminals
480 # Define to add support for using 256 colors in terminals. Note that this
481 # requires a capable terminal emulator, such as:
483 # - Thomas Dickey's XTerm, version 111 or later (check which version you have
484 # with xterm -version) compiled with --enable-256-color.
486 # - Rxvt, version 2.7.9 or later compiled with --enable-256-color.
488 # - Recent versions of PuTTY also have some support for 256 colors.
490 # You will still need to enable this at runtime for a given terminal in terminal
491 # options, or set your $TERM variable to xterm-256color - then, ELinks will
492 # automatically configure itself to make use of all the available terminal
493 # features, while still acting sensibly when you happen to run it in an xterm
494 # w/o the 256 colors support.
496 # When enabled, the memory usage is somewhat increased even when running in mono
497 # and 16 colors mode (the memory consumption can be especially remarkable when
498 # rendering very large documents and/or using very large terminals). However,
499 # when you actually run it in the suitable terminal, it looks really impressive,
507 ### Ex-mode Interface
509 # The ex-mode interface makes a prompt available when pressing ':'. The prompt
510 # can be used for entering actions like ':goto-url' and configuration file
513 # The code is still very experimental and lacks much work such as tab
523 # These are the tiny LED-like indicators, shown at the bottom-right of the
524 # screen as [-----]. They are used for indication of various states, e.g.
525 # whether you are currently talking through a SSL-secured connection,
526 # what is the current input mode (normal or insert), JavaScript errors etc.
535 # Makes it possible to set marks in a document and then later jump to them kind
536 # of like how fragments in URIs work. It is currently only possible to jump to
537 # marks set in the current document.
546 # Assertions are evaluated and will core dump on failure. Some extra sanity
547 # checks are done, and some errors will cause core dump instead of just a
548 # message. Internal memory leak detection is activated (memory usage will grow),
549 # and every allocation/reallocation/free operations will be slower due to extra
550 # tests. Lists sanity checks are enabled, so list operations are slower. Hot-key
551 # debugging is enabled, it highlights redundant hot-keys in a menu.
553 # This option should be _always_ used by beta testers and developers, it helps
554 # to detect many issues. Binary packages maintainers should not use this option
555 # in normal situation.
564 # This option provides a way to generate a faster and smaller binary of a
565 # _stable_ version of ELinks. Please do not use it with unstable releases
566 # (unless memory footprint, performance and/or binary size are major issues for
569 # It disables all assertion tests and sanity checks effectively reducing safety.
570 # It disables internal memory allocation routines, directly calling libc
571 # functions (so it's much faster, but memory allocation issues and memory leaks
572 # will be not detected). It defines fmem_alloc(), and fmem_free() to be in fact
573 # alloca() and nothing, providing much faster allocations in routines where they
581 ### Own C library functions
583 # Enable this to use the various C library stub functions that is part of the
584 # portability layer instead of those available in the C library on the system.
586 # It will make the binary slightly bigger and should only be used for testing
587 # the portability layer.
596 # Reduces the size of the binary but also disables a few memory consuming
597 # optimizations to make the program much lighter when running.
599 # Part of the size reduction is due to various help text not being compiled in
600 # which will affect usability. Also the disabled optimization will make ELinks
603 # See doc/small.txt for more information about how to reduce the size of ELinks.
610 ### Back-trace Printing
612 # Once upon a time, a disaster happens and ELinks crashes. That is a very sad
613 # event and it would be very nice to have some means how to diagnose it. In the
614 # crash handler, ELinks prints out various helpful things, however the truly
615 # important information is _where_ did it crash. Usually, users do not have gdb
616 # installed and can't provide a back-trace. However, ELinks can print a
617 # back-trace on its own, if the system supports it (currently, it is implemented
618 # only for glibc). It is not always accurate, it is useless when the ELinks
619 # binary is stripped and it still misses a lot of important information, but it
620 # can be sometimes still an indispensable help for the developers.
622 # You should keep this, unless you will strip your ELinks binary anyway, you
623 # know you are not going to report back any failures and you care about each
626 # Default: enabled if the libc supports it (only glibc)
631 ### Disable Root User
633 # Browsers are scary monsters used for traveling around in an even more scary
634 # world where people indifferently throw garbage files at you and threaten your
635 # perfect world. Altho' ELinks is a small monster compared to most browsers, it
636 # can still bite your head off and some might consider running it as the root
637 # user extremely dangerous. To prevent such usage simply enable this feature.
641 CONFIG_NO_ROOT_EXEC=no
644 # vim: filetype=sh textwidth=80