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.TH "ELINKS" 1 "The Elinks text-browser" "2007-01-06" "The Elinks text-browser"
.SH NAME
elinks \- lynx-like alternative character mode WWW browser
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
\fIelinks\fR [OPTION]... [URL]...
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
\fIELinks\fR is a text mode WWW browser, supporting colors, table rendering, background downloading, menu driven configuration interface, tabbed browsing and slim code\&.
Frames are supported\&. You can have different file formats associated with external viewers\&. mailto: and telnet: are supported via external clients\&.
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\&.
The homepage of \fIELinks\fR can be found at , where the ELinks manual is also hosted\&.
.SH "OPTIONS"
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\&.
.TP
\-anonymous [0|1] (default: 0)
Restricts \fIELinks\fR 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\&.
.TP
\-auto\-submit [0|1] (default: 0)
Automatically submit the first form in the given URLs\&.
.TP
\-base\-session (default: 0)
Used internally when opening \fIELinks\fR instances in new windows\&. The ID maps to information that will be used when creating the new instance\&. You don't want to use it\&.
.TP
\-config\-dir (default: "")
Path of the directory \fIELinks\fR will read and write its config and runtime state files to instead of ~/\&.elinks\&. If the path does not begin with a '/' it is assumed to be relative to your \fIHOME\fR directory\&.
.TP
\-config\-dump
Print a configuration file with options set to the built\-in defaults to stdout\&.
.TP
\-config\-file (default: "elinks\&.conf")
Name of the configuration file that all configuration options will be read from and written to\&. It should be relative to config\-dir\&.
.TP
\-config\-help
Print help for configuration options and exit\&.
.TP
\-default\-mime\-type (alias for mime\&.default_type)
The default MIME type used for documents of unknown type\&.
.TP
\-default\-keys [0|1] (default: 0)
When set, all keybindings from configuration files will be ignored\&. It forces use of default keybindings and will reset user\-defined ones on save\&.
.TP
\-dump [0|1] (default: 0)
Print formatted plain\-text versions of given URLs to stdout\&.
.TP
\-dump\-charset (alias for document\&.dump\&.codepage)
Codepage used when formatting dump output\&.
.TP
\-dump\-color\-mode (alias for document\&.dump\&.color_mode)
Color mode used with \-dump\&.
.TP
\-dump\-width (alias for document\&.dump\&.width)
Width of the dump output\&.
.TP
\-eval
Specify configuration file directives on the command\-line which will be evaluated after all configuration files has been read\&. Example usage:
.nf
\-eval 'set protocol\&.file\&.allow_special_files = 1'
.fi
.TP
\-force\-html
Makes \fIELinks\fR assume documents of unknown types are HTML\&. Useful when using \fIELinks\fR as an external viewer from MUAs\&. This is equivalent to \-default\-mime\-type text/html\&.
.TP
\-?, \-h, \-help
Print usage help and exit\&.
.TP
\-localhost [0|1] (default: 0)
Restricts \fIELinks\fR to work offline and only connect to servers with local addresses (ie\&. 127\&.0\&.0\&.1)\&. No connections to remote servers will be permitted\&.
.TP
\-long\-help
Print detailed usage help and exit\&.
.TP
\-lookup
Look up specified host and print all DNS resolved IP addresses\&.
.TP
\-no\-connect [0|1] (default: 0)
Run \fIELinks\fR 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 \-touch\-files\&.
.TP
\-no\-home [0|1] (default: 0)
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\&.
.TP
\-no\-numbering (alias for document\&.dump\&.numbering)
Prevents printing of link number in dump output\&. Note that this really affects only \-dump, nothing else\&.
.TP
\-no\-references (alias for document\&.dump\&.references)
Prevents printing of references (URIs) of document links in dump output\&. Note that this really affects only \-dump, nothing else\&.
.TP
\-remote
Control a remote \fIELinks\fR 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:
.RS
.TP 3
\(bu
ping(): look for a remote instance
.TP
\(bu
openURL(): prompt URL in current tab
.TP
\(bu
openURL(URL): open URL in current tab
.TP
\(bu
openURL(URL, new\-tab): open URL in new tab
.TP
\(bu
openURL(URL, new\-window): open URL in new window
.TP
\(bu
addBookmark(URL): bookmark URL
.TP
\(bu
infoBox(text): show text in a message box
.TP
\(bu
xfeDoCommand(openBrowser): open new window
.LP
.RE
.IP
.TP
\-session\-ring (default: 0)
ID of session ring this \fIELinks\fR session should connect to\&. \fIELinks\fR 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 \fIELinks\fR 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 \fIELinks\fR 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 \-touch\-files\&.
.TP
\-source [0|1] (default: 0)
Print given URLs in source form to stdout\&.
.TP
\-touch\-files [0|1] (default: 0)
When enabled, runtime state files (bookmarks, history, etc\&.) are written to disk, even when \-no\-connect or \-session\-ring is used\&. The option has no effect if not used in conjunction with any of these options\&.
.TP
\-verbose (default: 1)
The verbose level controls what messages are shown at start up and while running:
.RS
.TP 3
\(bu
0: means only show serious errors
.TP
\(bu
1: means show serious errors and warnings
.TP
\(bu
2: means show all messages
.LP
.RE
.IP
.TP
\-version
Print \fIELinks\fR version information and exit\&.
Generated using output from ELinks version 0\&.12\&.GIT\&.
.SH "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES"
.TP
COMSPEC, SHELL
The shell used for File \-> OS Shell on DOS/Windows and UNIX, respectively\&.
.TP
EDITOR
The program to use for external editor (when editing textareas)\&.
.TP
ELINKS_CONFDIR
The location of the directory containing configuration files\&. If not set the default is ~/\&.elinks/\&.
.TP
ELINKS_TWTERM, LINKS_TWTERM
The command to run when selecting File \-> New window and if TWDISPLAY is defined (default twterm \-e)
.TP
ELINKS_XTERM, LINKS_XTERM
The command to run when selecting File \-> New window and if DISPLAY is defined (default xterm \-e)
.TP
FTP_PROXY, HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY
The host to proxy the various protocol traffic through\&.
.TP
NO_PROXY
A comma separated list of URLs which should not be proxied\&.
.TP
HOME
The path to the users home directory\&. Used when expanding ~/\&.
.TP
WWW_HOME
Homepage location (as in \fBlynx\fR(1))\&.
.SH "FILES"
.TP
@sysconfdir@/elinks\&.conf
Site\-wide configuration file\&.
.TP
~/\&.elinks/elinks\&.conf
Per\-user config file, loaded after site\-wide configuration\&.
.TP
~/\&.elinks/bookmarks
Bookmarks file\&.
.TP
~/\&.elinks/cookies
Cookies file\&.
.TP
~/\&.elinks/exmodehist
Exmode history file\&.
.TP
~/\&.elinks/formhist
Form history file\&.
.TP
~/\&.elinks/globhist
History file containing most recently visited URLs\&.
.TP
~/\&.elinks/gotohist
GoTo URL dialog history file\&.
.TP
~/\&.elinks/hooks\&.{js,lua,pl,py,rb,scm}
Browser scripting hooks\&.
.TP
~/\&.elinks/searchhist
Search history file\&.
.TP
~/\&.elinks/socket
Internal \fIELinks\fR socket for communication between its instances\&.
.TP
~/\&.mailcap
Mappings of MIME types to external handlers\&.
.TP
~/\&.mime\&.types
Mappings of file extensions to MIME types\&.
Other files that ELinks uses from \fI~/\&.elinks/\fR includes the user defined CSS stylesheet\&. The name of the file can set in the \fIdocument\&.css\&.stylesheet\fR option\&.
.SH "PLATFORMS"
\fIELinks\fR is known to work on \fILinux\fR, \fIFreeBSD\fR, \fIOpenBSD\fR, \fISolaris\fR, \fIIRIX\fR, \fIHPUX\fR, \fIDigital Unix\fR, \fIAIX\fR, \fIOS/2\fR, \fIBeOS\fR and \fIRISC OS\fR\&. Port for \fIWin32\fR is in state of beta testing\&.
.SH "BUGS"
Please report any other bugs you find to the either the ELinks mailing list at or if you prefer enter them into the bug tracking system \&. More information about how to get in contact with developers and getting help can be found on the community page \&.
.SH "LICENSE"
\fIELinks\fR is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License\&.
.SH "AUTHORS"
The \fILinks\fR browser \- on which \fIELinks\fR is based \- was written by Mikulas Patocka \&. \fIELinks\fR was written by Petr Baudis \&. See file AUTHORS in the source tree for a list of people contributing to this project\&.
This manual page was written by Peter Gervai , 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 \&. Updated by Zas \&. The conversion to Asciidoc and trimming was done by Jonas Fonseca \&.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
\fBelinkskeys\fR(5), \fBelinks\&.conf\fR(5), \fBlinks\fR(1), \fBlynx\fR(1), \fBw3m\fR(1), \fBwget\fR(1)