elinks - lynx-like alternative character mode WWW browser
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.
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.
- -always-load-config [0|1] (default: 0)
- Load config also for slave instances. Slower, but more robust.
- -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.
- -bind-address <str> (default: "")
- Use a specific local IP address
- -bind-address-ipv6 <str> (default: "")
- Use a specific local IPv6 address
- -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.
- -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-color-mode (alias for document.dump.color_mode)
- Color mode used with -dump.
- -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.
- -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-libevent [0|1] (default: 0)
- Disables libevent.
- -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:
- ping(): look for a remote instance
- openURL(): prompt URL in current tab
- openURL(URL): open URL in current tab
- openURL(URL, new-tab): open URL in new tab
- openURL(URL, new-window): open URL in new window
- addBookmark(URL): bookmark URL
- infoBox(text): show text in a message box
- reload(): reload the document in the current tab
- search(string): search in the current tab
- 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.
- -terminfo [0|1] (default: 0)
- When enabled, terminfo ncurses functions will be used instead of
hardcoded sequences.
- -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:
- 0 means only show serious errors
- 1 means show serious errors and warnings
- 2 means show all messages
- -version
- Print ELinks version information and exit.
Generated using output from ELinks version 0.16.1.1.
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.
-
@sysconfdir@/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.
-
~/.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.
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. More information about
how to get in contact with developers and getting help can be found on
the community page.
ELinks is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.
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,
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.
elinkskeys(5), elinks.conf(5), links(1), lynx(1),
w3m(1), wget(1)