elinks(1) ========= :Description: The Elinks text-browser 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`. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ifdef::backend-docbook[] include1::{builddir}option-command.frag.xml[] endif::backend-docbook[] ifdef::backend-xhtml11[] include1::{builddir}option-command.frag.xhtml[] endif::backend-xhtml11[] ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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 textareas). ELINKS_CONFDIR:: If set the location of the directory containing configuration files. If not set see below. XDG_CONFIG_HOME:: The location of the directory containing configuration files. If set configuration files are located in `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/elinks/`. Otherwise in `~/.config/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 otherman:lynx[1]). FILES ----- Configuration files controlled by ELinks are located in the user configuration directory, defaulting to '~/.config/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. ~/.config/elinks/elinks.conf:: Per-user config file, loaded after site-wide configuration. ~/.config/elinks/bookmarks:: Bookmarks file. ~/.config/elinks/cookies:: Cookies file. ~/.config/elinks/exmodehist:: Exmode history file. ~/.config/elinks/formhist:: Form history file. ~/.config/elinks/globhist:: History file containing most recently visited URLs. ~/.config/elinks/gotohist:: GoTo URL dialog history file. ~/.config/elinks/hooks.{js,lua,pl,py,rb,scm}:: Browser scripting hooks. ~/.config/elinks/searchhist:: Search history file. ~/.config/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. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // Commented out since it's neither super useful nor manpage material. --jonas PLATFORMS --------- 'ELinks' is known to work on 'Linux', 'FreeBSD', 'OpenBSD', 'Solaris', 'IRIX', 'HPUX', 'Digital Unix', 'AIX', 'OS/2', 'BeOS' and 'RISC OS'. Port for 'Win32' is in state of beta testing. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// BUGS ---- Please report any other bugs you find to the either the ELinks mailing list at mailto:elinks-users@linuxfromscratch.org[] or if you prefer enter them into http://bugzilla.elinks.cz/[the bug tracking system]. More information about how to get in contact with developers and getting help can be found on http://elinks.cz/community.html[the community page]. LICENSE ------- 'ELinks' is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html[the GNU General Public License] 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 mailto:mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz[]. 'ELinks' was written by Petr Baudis mailto: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 mailto: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 mailto:pasky@ucw.cz[]. Updated by Zas mailto:zas@norz.org[]. The conversion to Asciidoc and trimming was done by Jonas Fonseca mailto:fonseca@diku.dk[]. SEE ALSO -------- man:elinkskeys[5], man:elinks.conf[5], otherman:links[1], otherman:lynx[1], otherman:w3m[1], otherman:wget[1] //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// # vim: tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 textwidth=76 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////