Re: changing lynx default homepage from the comand line?

because this is not my service I wish to tamper with config files as 
little  as possible.
If there is not a command line only method to accomplish this task, much 
like  the -useragent one, then never mind.
thanks for all the ideas but  again  I am not interested in altering 
lynx.cfg in any fashion.
Karen


On Fri, 15 Nov 2019, Tim Chase wrote:

> Karen,
>
> You can combine Thorsten's advice to use "-cfg=FILENAME" with my
> previous shell-alias suggestion, which is what I've done in the past
> to specify a local config file.  With that in place, you can set your
> default home-page in your local lynx config file (say, ~/.lynx.cfg)
>
>  echo "STARTFILE:https://example.com" >> ~/.lynx.cfg
>
> and then have your function/alias specify the config file:
>
>  lynx() { command lynx -cfg=$HOME/.lynx.cfg "$@" ; }
>
> I happen to like the TEXTFIELDS_NEED_ACTIVATION:TRUE set in my .cfg
> file too, so this is how I get that behavior every time.
>
> -tim
>
>
> On 2019-11-15 22:56, 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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