3 :Description: The Elinks text-browser
7 elinks - lynx-like alternative character mode WWW browser
11 'elinks' [OPTION]... [URL]...
16 'ELinks' is a text mode WWW browser, supporting colors, table rendering,
17 background downloading, menu driven configuration interface, tabbed browsing
20 Frames are supported. You can have different file formats associated with
21 external viewers. `mailto:` and `telnet:` are supported via external clients.
23 ELinks can handle both local files and remote URLs. The main supported remote
24 URL protocols are 'HTTP', 'HTTPS' (with SSL support compiled in) and 'FTP'.
25 Additional protocol support exists for 'BitTorrent' 'finger', 'Gopher',
28 The homepage of 'ELinks' can be found at http://elinks.cz/[], where the ELinks
29 manual is also hosted.
34 Most options can be set in the user interface or config file, so usually you
35 do not need to care about them. Note that this list is roughly equivalent to
36 the output of running ELinks with the option `--long-help`.
38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
39 ifdef::backend-docbook[]
40 include1::{builddir}option-command.frag.xml[]
41 endif::backend-docbook[]
42 ifdef::backend-xhtml11[]
43 include1::{builddir}option-command.frag.xhtml[]
44 endif::backend-xhtml11[]
45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
52 The shell used for File -> OS Shell on DOS/Windows and UNIX,
57 The program to use for external editor (when editing textareas).
61 The location of the directory containing configuration files. If not
62 set the default is `~/.elinks/`.
64 ELINKS_TWTERM, LINKS_TWTERM::
66 The command to run when selecting File -> New window and if
67 `TWDISPLAY` is defined (default `twterm -e`).
69 ELINKS_XTERM, LINKS_XTERM::
71 The command to run when selecting File -> New window and if `DISPLAY`
72 is defined (default `xterm -e`).
74 FTP_PROXY, HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY::
76 The host to proxy the various protocol traffic through.
80 A comma separated list of URLs which should not be proxied.
84 The path to the users home directory. Used when expanding `~/`.
88 Homepage location (as in otherman:lynx[1]).
93 Configuration files controlled by ELinks are located in the user
94 configuration directory, defaulting to '~/.elinks/'. In addition to the
95 files listed below, a user defined CSS stylesheet can be defined using
96 the 'document.css.stylesheet' option.
98 @sysconfdir@/elinks.conf::
99 Site-wide configuration file.
101 ~/.elinks/elinks.conf::
102 Per-user config file, loaded after site-wide configuration.
104 ~/.elinks/bookmarks::
110 ~/.elinks/exmodehist::
117 History file containing most recently visited URLs.
120 GoTo URL dialog history file.
122 ~/.elinks/hooks.{js,lua,pl,py,rb,scm}::
123 Browser scripting hooks.
125 ~/.elinks/searchhist::
129 Internal 'ELinks' socket for communication between its instances.
131 ~/.mailcap, /etc/mailcap::
132 Mappings of MIME types to external handlers.
134 ~/.mime.types, /etc/mime.types::
135 Mappings of file extensions to MIME types.
137 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
138 // Commented out since it's neither super useful nor manpage material. --jonas
143 'ELinks' is known to work on 'Linux', 'FreeBSD', 'OpenBSD', 'Solaris', 'IRIX',
144 'HPUX', 'Digital Unix', 'AIX', 'OS/2', 'BeOS' and 'RISC OS'. Port for 'Win32'
145 is in state of beta testing.
146 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
151 Please report any other bugs you find to the either the ELinks mailing list at
152 mailto:elinks-users@linuxfromscratch.org[] or if you prefer enter them into
153 http://bugzilla.elinks.cz/[the bug tracking system]. More information about
154 how to get in contact with developers and getting help can be found on
155 http://elinks.cz/community.html[the community page].
160 'ELinks' is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
161 terms of http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html[the GNU General Public License]
162 as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.
167 The 'Links' browser - on which 'ELinks' is based - was written by Mikulas
168 Patocka mailto:mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz[]. 'ELinks' was written by
169 Petr Baudis mailto:pasky@ucw.cz[]. See file `AUTHORS` in the source tree for a
170 list of people contributing to this project.
172 This manual page was written by Peter Gervai mailto:grin@tolna.net[], using
173 excerpts from a (yet?) unknown 'Links' fan for the 'Debian GNU/Linux system'
174 (but may be used by others). Contributions from Francis A. Holop. Extended,
175 clarified and made more up-to-date by Petr Baudis mailto:pasky@ucw.cz[].
176 Updated by Zas mailto:zas@norz.org[]. The conversion to Asciidoc and trimming
177 was done by Jonas Fonseca mailto:fonseca@diku.dk[].
182 man:elinkskeys[5], man:elinks.conf[5], otherman:links[1], otherman:lynx[1],
183 otherman:w3m[1], otherman:wget[1]
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