Re: changing lynx default homepage from the comand line?
Karen Lewellen <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.web.lynx.devel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
folks, i. do. not. want. to. make. this. change. in lynx.cfg...at all! How hard is that to understand? I asked for *command line* not all the ways I might screw up another person's setup. On Fri, 15 Nov 2019, Bela Lubkin wrote: > Karen Lewellen wrote: > >> since this is not my system, >> I have no idea where the lynx.cfg file is. > > While in Lynx, hit 'o' for options. Near the very bottom is a line, > > View the file lynx.cfg. > > Following the 'lynx.cfg' link, you see a rendition of the active > portions of your lynx.cfg. Near the top of that is a comment: > > #Your primary configuration /path/to/system/lynx.cfg > > ==== > > We can reduce that somewhat. 'LYNXCFG:/' is the URL used in that > 'lynx.cfg' link; we can dump that from the shell: > > $ lynx -dump LYNXCFG:/ | grep primary.config > #Your primary configuration [4]/path/to/system/lynx.cfg > > One way to make use of this: > > $ cd $HOME > $ echo 'INCLUDE:/path/to/system/lynx.cfg' > .lynx_cfg > $ echo 'STARTFILE:https://www.xyz.abc' >> .lynx_cfg > $ lynx -cfg $HOME/.lynx_cfg ### opens www.xyz.abc > > This uses lynx.cfg's INCLUDE command to include the system lynx.cfg by > reference. That way it will keep up with any changes the system > administrator might make (as long as they don't replace the lynx binary > with one compiled to look in a different location). Setting STARTFILE > *after* the INCLUDE ensures that your setting overrides the system's. > > Now all you need is one of the various alias techniques mentioned by > others... > >> Bela< > > _______________________________________________ > Lynx-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev > _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev