New ELinks user: some questions

Hello ELinks users and devs,

I discovered ELinks very recently - it is becoming my main browser. 
Fast, uncluttered, light on the CPU, configurable, daring to be 
different (link numbers? nice). Many unlikely things turned out possible 
after some searching. Superb work!

Here are a few questions that remain for me:

* I would very much like to switch cookies on or off on the fly, with a 
single keystroke, like toggling images or link numbers. Same for 
ECMAScript. But I don't find these as actions in the keybinding manager. 
Is there a general way to bind keys to settings otherwise available via 
the options manager? So I mean something like 'bind Alt-C to 
Options>Cookies>Accept_policy(0) & bind Alt-Shift-C to 
Options>Cookies>Accept_policy(2)', of even better a single keystroke 
that toggles the value.

* ... and if the toggle state could show up in the LED area that would 
be super cool.

* I haven't quite figured out the MIME type stuff yet. Going by some 
info on the web, I set File type handlers > image_viewer > and then two 
options: (1) > unix, which has "eog %" (Eye of Gnome) as its associated 
program, and (2) > unix-xwin which has "img2txt -W 138 -d fstein -f utf8 
%" which creates a Unicode impression of the picture within the 
terminal. Whenever I hit an image, option (2) is used. But that is not 
always what I want. Is it possible to associate a keystroke with 
displaying the image via "eog %", while keeping the img2text options as 
the default? (The idea is that I can get some idea of the picture 
without leaving the terminal via img2txt, and if I decide I want to see 
it for real, then I open it with the external image viewer.)

* In Firefox etc, after writing in a textarea, I tend to select all and 
copy to clipboard before hitting the 'submit' button. Then I don't lose 
my writing if the submit process goes awry. But in the terminal/ELinks 
the usual Ctrl-a Ctrl-c doesn't do the trick, and shift-mouse-selecting 
does not cleanly capture the area content either. Is there a solution?

* Since I've set a homepage URI, when I open a new tab it opens that 
page rather than ask me for a URI. I liked the latter behaviour. Is it 
possible to retain it, while still having a homepage accessible through 'H'?

In addition, two 'feature requests':

* Adjustable-width empty margins between the displayed text and the 
terminal window border. That can increase readability quite a bit: text 
running right up to the window border hurts my eyes. Arguably this could 
be left to the terminal application, which may be able to fine-tune it 
in pixels, whereas ELinks might have to use lines and columns as units 
(?). And indeed I found a config setting for gnome-terminal that does 
it. But also arguably, it would be nice to have it within ELinks 
independent of the terminal, and easily changed on the fly via the 
options manager?

* Still more css and javascript support would be neat (I can imagine 
that ain't easy) ...

If anyone can provide answers, that'd be very welcome. Finally, many, 
many thanks to the developers!

cheerio,

'Xiha'

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