Re: changing lynx default homepage from the comand line?

The reason why I want a command to do this, say like the useragent  option 
Tom    provided in another thread is because, since this is not my system, 
I have no idea where the lynx.cfg file is.
I wish to change the site that displays when I type lynx, without 
impacting the    system whatsoever.
How does that seem confusing?


On Fri, 15 Nov 2019, Thorsten Glaser wrote:

> Karen Lewellen dixit:
>
>> I am seeking a command line method  to override the site  listed as the
>> homepage for lynx regularly,  i. e. the page that appears if i just entre lynx.
>
> Then don’t enter just lynx ;-)
>
> Otherwise, you can override the homepage in the lynx.cfg file.
> Since you’re on a shellserver you cannot do that system-wide,
> but you can copy the system-wide one into your home directory
> and use the -cfg=FILENAME option to point to the changed file.
>
>> The idea is  to change this  default homepage, not just simply visit a
>> new site once.
>
> But the “homepage” is only shown if you don’t tell it a site
> to visit when starting.
>
> It’s probably easiest to make an alias, something like this:
>
> echo "alias 'ly=lynx http://the.new.start.site'" >>~/.bashrc
>
> Then typing ly will start lynx with the other start page.
> Easier than doing the config dance, unless you need that anyway.
>
> bye,
> //mirabilos
> -- 
> FWIW, I'm quite impressed with mksh interactively. I thought it was much
> *much* more bare bones. But it turns out it beats the living hell out of
> ksh93 in that respect. I'd even consider it for my daily use if I hadn't
> wasted half my life on my zsh setup. :-) -- Frank Terbeck in #!/bin/mksh
>
>
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