\fIELinks\fR is a text mode WWW browser, supporting colors, table rendering, background downloading, menu driven configuration interface, tabbed browsing and slim code.
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Frames are supported. You can have different file formats associated with external viewers. mailto: and telnet: are supported via external clients.
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ELinks can handle both local files and remote URLs. The main supported remote URL protocols are \fIHTTP\fR, \fIHTTPS\fR (with SSL support compiled in) and \fIFTP\fR. Additional protocol support exists for \fIBitTorrent\fR\fIfinger\fR, \fIGopher\fR, \fISMB\fR and \fINNTP\fR.
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The homepage of \fIELinks\fR can be found at <http://elinks.cz/>, where the ELinks manual is also hosted.
Most options can be set in the user interface or config file, so usually you do not need to care about them. Note that this list is roughly equivalent to the output of running ELinks with the option \-\-long\-help.
so it can run on an anonymous account. Local file browsing, downloads, and modification of options will be disabled. Execution of viewers is allowed, but entries in the association table can't be added or modified.
as a separate instance instead of connecting to an existing instance. Note that normally no runtime state files (bookmarks, history, etc.) are written to the disk when this option is used. See also
Disables creation and use of files in the user specific home configuration directory (~/.elinks). It forces default configuration values to be used and disables saving of runtime state files.
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\-no\-numbering (alias for document.dump.numbering)
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Prevents printing of link number in dump output. Note that this really affects only
\-dump, nothing else.
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\-no\-references (alias for document.dump.references)
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Prevents printing of references (URIs) of document links in dump output. Note that this really affects only
instance by passing commands to it. The option takes an additional argument containing the method which should be invoked and any parameters that should be passed to it. For ease of use, the additional method argument can be omitted in which case any URL arguments will be opened in new tabs in the remote instance. Following is a list of the supported methods:
works in so\-called session rings, whereby all instances of
\fIELinks\fR
are interconnected and share state (cache, bookmarks, cookies, and so on). By default, all
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instances connect to session ring 0. You can change that behaviour with this switch and form as many session rings as you want. Obviously, if the session\-ring with this number doesn't exist yet, it's created and this 'ELinks' instance will become the master instance (that usually doesn't matter for you as a user much). Note that you usually don't want to use this unless you're a developer and you want to do some testing \- if you want the
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instances each running standalone, rather use the
\-no\-connect
command\-line option. Also note that normally no runtime state files are written to the disk when this option is used. See also
Configuration files controlled by ELinks are located in the user configuration directory, defaulting to \fI~/.elinks/\fR. In addition to the files listed below, a user defined CSS stylesheet can be defined using the \fIdocument.css.stylesheet\fR option.
Please report any other bugs you find to the either the ELinks mailing list at <elinks\-users@linuxfromscratch.org> or if you prefer enter them into the bug tracking system <http://bugzilla.elinks.cz/>. More information about how to get in contact with developers and getting help can be found on the community page <http://elinks.cz/community.html>.
\fIELinks\fR is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html> as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.
The \fILinks\fR browser \- on which \fIELinks\fR is based \- was written by Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>. \fIELinks\fR was written by Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>. See file AUTHORS in the source tree for a list of people contributing to this project.
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This manual page was written by Peter Gervai <grin@tolna.net>, using excerpts from a (yet?) unknown \fILinks\fR fan for the \fIDebian GNU/Linux system\fR (but may be used by others). Contributions from Francis A. Holop. Extended, clarified and made more up\-to\-date by Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>. Updated by Zas <zas@norz.org>. The conversion to Asciidoc and trimming was done by Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>.