Re: changing lynx default homepage from the comand line?

to be sure, there are ten of them, none  of which have my name on it.
Which is why I have stated my goal has never been to involve the lynx.cfg 
file  in  any fashion.



On Sat, 16 Nov 2019, Jude DaShiell wrote:

> run locate lynx.cfg and you will have an idea.
>
> On Fri, 15 Nov 2019, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>
>> Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 18:32:20
>> From: Karen Lewellen <[email protected]>
>> To: Thorsten Glaser <[email protected]>
>> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] 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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