### Feature configuration file # # This file contains various compile-time configuration settings, which you can # adjust below. You can fine-tune the ELinks binary to include really only what # you want it to. It acts as a front-end to the configure script in the sense # that it is possible to control any features in this file by passing arguments # to the configure script. In fact any arguments given to the script will # overrule the values set in this file. # # There are still some things which are to be adjusted only directly through the # configure script arguments though, so check ./configure --help out as well! # # All dependency checking is done by the configure script so even though a # feature is enabled here it is possible that it will be disabled at compile # time if the dependencies are not met. Check the features.log file generated # by the configure script to make sure. ### Notes for users # # All features that can be controlled using this file are already set to their # default values. The syntax used is hopefully familiar to most people. # # '#' chars start a comment that runs until the end of the line. # # The features are controlled by setting the various CONFIG_ variables # to either 'yes' or 'no' depending on whether it should be enabled or disabled. # So in order to disable bookmark support a line in this file should say: # # CONFIG_BOOKMARKS=no # # It is also possible to simply comment out the line in order to disable it. # Therefore, if the default doesn't suit you, you can either comment it out or # set it to the value you desire. ### Notes for developers # # Please strive to keep the format of all entries uniform, it will make it # easier for us as well as for the users. Do not forget to accurately describe # the feature and also the impact of enabling/disabling it. Follow the format of # existing comments. Follow the example of XBEL when adding features which also # need some detection in configure.in. # # Not everything is suitable for an entry in this file, maybe it would be # happier directly in the configure.in. If it is really purely question of # system support (X2, HAVE_SA_STORAGE), and it makes no sense for the user to # touch it, do not include it here. # # Also, use your common sense. (Not that I would trust it that much... ;-)) # --pasky ### Bookmarks # # ELinks has built-in hierarchic bookmarks support. Open the bookmarks manager # by pressing 's'. When bookmarks are enabled, also support for the internal # ELinks bookmarks format is always compiled in. # # This is a favourite target for disabling in various embedded applications. # It all depends on your requirements. # # Also read the ``The Ultimate Bookmarks Guide'' in doc/bookmarks.txt # # Default: enabled CONFIG_BOOKMARKS=yes ### XBEL Bookmarks # # ELinks also supports universal XML bookmarks format called XBEL, also # supported by e.g. Galeon, various "always-have-my-bookmarks" websites and # number of universal bookmark converters. # # Frequently, you know you will not need it, then you can of course happily # forcibly remove support for it and save few bytes. # # Default: enabled if libexpat is found and bookmarks are enabled CONFIG_XBEL_BOOKMARKS=yes ### Cookies # # Support for HTTP cookies --- a data token which the server sends the client # once and then the client sends it back along each request to the server. This # mechanism is crucial e.g. for keeping HTTP sessions (you "log in" to a site, # and from then on the site recognizes you usually because of the cookie), but # also for various banner systems, remembering values filled to various forms, # and so on. You can further tune the ELinks behaviour at runtime (whether to # accept/send cookies, ask for confirmation when accepting a cookie etc). # # This functionality is usually quite important and you should not disable it # unless you really know what are you doing. # # Default: enabled CONFIG_COOKIES=yes ### Form History # # The famous Competing Browser has that annoying thing which pops up when you # submit a form, offering to remember it and pre-fill it the next time. And yes, # ELinks can do that too! You will still need to also enable this manually at # document.browse.forms.show_formhist. # # Many people find it extremely annoying (including pasky), however some others # consider it extremely handy and will sacrifice almost anything to get it. It # will not do any harm to have this compiled-in as long as you will leave it # turned off (which is also the default configuration). # # Default: enabled CONFIG_FORMHIST=yes ### Global History # # This device records each and every page you visit (to a configurable limit). # You can browse through this history in the history manager (press 'h'). Do # not confuse this with the "session history", recording history of your # browsing in the frame of one session (session history is the thing you move # through when pressing 'back' and 'unback' or which you see in the # File::History menu). # # Global history does not care about the order you visited the pages in, it just # records that you visited it, when did you do that and the title of the page. # Then, you can see when did you visit a link last time (and what was the title # of the target document at that time), links can be coloured as visited etc. # # If you disable this feature, you will not lose any crucial functionality, just # some relatively minor convenience features, which can nevertheless prove # sometimes very practical. # # Default: enabled CONFIG_GLOBHIST=yes ### MIME # # ELinks uses a MIME system for determining the content type of documents and # configuring programs for external handling. By default the option system can # be used to configure how media types are handled. More info about how to set # up the MIME handling using the option system can be found in the doc/mime.html # file. # # Below are listed some additional ways to do it. ### Mailcap # # Mailcap files describe what program - on the local system - can be used to # handle a media type. The file format is defined in RFC 1524 and more info # including examples can be found in the doc/mailcap.html file. # # This is very useful especially for clean interoperability with other # MIME-aware applications and fitting nicely into the UNIX system, where this is # the standard way of specifying MIME handlers. If you are not interested in # that, you can still use the internal MIME associations system, though. # # Default: enabled CONFIG_MAILCAP=yes ### Mimetypes File # # Mimetypes file can be used to specify the relation between media types and # file extensions. # # Basically same thing applies here as for the mailcap support. # # Default: enabled CONFIG_MIMETYPES=yes ### IPv6 Protocol Support # # You know this thing that was designed to obsolete IPv4 but only pasky, # weirdos and projects supported with big funds really use. ;-) # # Default: enabled if the system supports it CONFIG_IPV6=yes ### URI Rewriting # # The goto dialog through which new URIs can be entered is an essential part of # browsing in ELinks. This feature makes the dialog more powerful by making it # possible to extend how entered text is handled through a set of rewrite rules # (see protocol.rewrite options). # # There are two types of rules: simple and smart ones. # # Simple rewriting rules are basically URI abbreviations, making it possible to # map a word to the full URI. They can also be used for hierarchic navigation to # ease moving from some nested directory to the parent directory or doing other # stuff with the current URI. For example, when you type 'gg' into the goto # dialog, you will be materialized at Google's homepage. # # Smart rules can take arguments and therefore enable more advanced rewriting. # The arguments could be search words to google for or a lookup query for a # dictionary. Eg. type 'gg:Petr Baudis king of ELinks cvs'. # # This feature is also available in a more powerful form in the Lua and Guile # extensions, so if you plan to or already use those, you won't miss anything by # disabling this feature (besides easier and better integrated configuration). # # Default: enabled CONFIG_URI_REWRITE=yes ### BitTorrent Protocol Support # # The BitTorrent protocol is a protocol for distributing files in a peer-to-peer # (P2P) manner. It uses the HTTP protocol for communicating with a central # server and a peer-to-peer (P2P) protocol for exchanging file pieces betweens # peer downloaders. The integrity of file pieces downloaded from peers are # checked using cryptographic hashing (SHA1). # # Downloads using BitTorrent are started by first downloading a .torrent file # with the MIME type "application/x-bittorrent". The file contains information # which enables ELinks to ask a central server, called a tracker, for # information about other downloading peers and start downloading from and # uploading to them. # # At any time, an external handler can always be defined to take precedence of # the internal BitTorrent client and the internal client can always be forced # by prefixing the URI of the .torrent file with "bittorrent:" # # NOTE: The BitTorrent support is still experimental. # # Default: disabled CONFIG_BITTORRENT=no ### Local CGI Support # # ELinks can (like w3m or lynx) execute certain executable files stored on the # local disks as CGIs, when you target it on them (through a URI of the 'file' # scheme). ELinks emulates the complete CGI environment, like the program would # be executed by a web server. See the protocol.file.cgi options tree for # detailed runtime configuration. # # Some people just write their bookmark management application as Perl CGI # script and then access it from the web browser using this feature, not needing # any web server or so. Therefore, this is a great possible way to extended the # browser capabilities. # # Even when you compile this in, you need to enable this yet in the # configuration, and even then only CGI files passing certain user-defined # filters (path-based) will be allowed to be executed (and there are certain # other security barriers in place). # # Default: disabled, available if setenv() or putenv() is found CONFIG_CGI=no ### Data URI protocol # # The data URI protocol is defined in RFC 2397 and allows inclusion of small # data items as "immediate" data, as if it had been included externally. # # A data URL might be used for arbitrary types of data. The URI # # data:,A%20brief%20note # # encodes the text/plain string "A brief note", which might be useful in a # footnote link. # # Default: enabled CONFIG_DATA=yes ### Finger User Information Protocol Support # # The finger protocol is a simple protocol defined in RFC 1288. The server # return a friendly, human-oriented status report on either the system at the # moment or a particular person in depth such as whether a user is currently # logged-on, e-mail address, full name etc. As well as standard user # information, it displays the contents of ".plan" file in the user's home # directory. Often this file (maintained by the user) contained either useful # information about the user's current activities, or alternatively all manner # of humor. # # It is most often implemented on Unix or Unix-like systems however due to # security and privacy reasons it is usually disabled or only allowed locally on # the system. # # Default: disabled CONFIG_FINGER=no ### File Service Protocol # # File Service Protocol (FSP) is a very lightweight UDP based protocol for # transferring files. FSP has many benefits over FTP, mainly for running # anonymous archives. FSP protocol is valuable in all kinds of environments # because it is one of the only TCP/IP protocols that is not aggressive about # bandwidth, while still being sufficiently fault tolerant. # # FSP is what anonymous FTP *should* be! # # See http://fsp.sourceforge.net/ for more info. # # Default: disabled CONFIG_FSP=no ### File Transfer Protocol Support # # The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a software standard for transferring # computer files between machines with widely different operating systems. # # Many sites that run FTP servers enable so-called "anonymous ftp". Under # this arrangement, users do not need an account on the server. By default, # the account name for the anonymous access is 'anonymous'. This account # does not need a password, but users are commonly asked to send their email # addresses as their passwords for authentication (protocol.ftp.anon_passwd), # but there is no verification. # # See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ftp . # # Default: enabled CONFIG_FTP=yes ### Gopher Protocol Support # # Gopher is a distributed document search and retrieval network protocol # designed for the Internet in RFC 1436. The need for gopher arose in in the # early days of the hypertext Internet where the number of documents that were # being published in campus and research environments could not easily be # distributed using known protocols like FTP because these documents were stored # not in one place, but in many computers connected to the Internet. # # The support works much like local file browsing with directories (aka. menus) # and various file types that can be downloaded and viewed. # # It is still very experimental and the CSO phone-book protocol is not # implemented. # # Default: disabled CONFIG_GOPHER=no ### NNTP Protocol Support # # Network news transport protocol support makes it possible to access nntp # and news servers and read postings. It is still very experimental and is # far from being considered a ``news reader''. # # It is possible to list news groups on a server, articles in a news group # and retrieve articles by their number or message-id. # # Default: disabled CONFIG_NNTP=no ### SMB Protocol Support # # ELinks supports browsing over the SMB protocol (URI 'smb' scheme), using the # smbclient program as back-end. Therefore, in order to have this enabled, you # will need to install Samba (or at least just the smbclient part, if you can # install it separately). # # Default: enabled if smbclient will be found CONFIG_SMB=yes ### Cascading Style Sheets # # Simplistic CSS support. It is still very much in it's infancy so don't expect # too much. If you have use of background colors enabled more pages will have # the intended background color. Also quite a few additional text attributes are # applied. One example is highlighting of search words on Google's cached pages. # # There are options to disable both imported style sheets to minimize network # traffic and whether to use CSS at all. Also a default style sheet can be # defined to control the basic layout in the HTML renderer. # # Default: enabled CONFIG_CSS=yes ### HTML Highlighting # # Makes it possible to view HTML source with the markup highlighted in colors # configurable using CSS. It also makes values of referencing attributes # accessible like the href="" attribute in elements. # # The HTML highlighting uses components of an experimental DOM implementation # still in progress so enabling this feature will add a considerable amount of # code to the compiled binary. On the other hand it will help to debug what will # hopefully evolve into the next generation document renderer. # # Default: disabled, requires that CSS is enabled CONFIG_HTML_HIGHLIGHT=no ### ECMAScript (JavaScript) Browser Scripting # # By enabling this feature, certain parts of ELinks, such as the goto URL # dialog, may be extended using ECMAScript (aka. JavaScript) scripts. This can # be useful to optimise your usage of ELinks. # # For example you can define shortcuts (or abbreviations) for URLs of sites you # often visit by having a goto URL hook expand them. This can also be achieved # with the URI rewrite feature (CONFIG_URI_REWRITE), however it is not as # powerful as doing it with scripting. # # Default: enabled if Spidermonkey is found CONFIG_SCRIPTING_SPIDERMONKEY=yes ### Mouse Support # # ELinks may be controlled not only by keyboard, but also by mouse to quite some # extent. You can select links, menu items, scroll document, click at buttons # etc, and it should hopefully work. ELinks supports mouse control by GPM, xterm # mouse reporting and TWAIN's twterm mouse reporting. # # It is generally nice convenience and doesn't cost too much. However, you can # do everything with keyboard as you can with mouse. Also note that the xterm # mouse reporting takes control over the terminal so that copy and pasting text # from and to ELinks has to be done by holding down the Shift key. # # Default: enabled CONFIG_MOUSE=yes ### 88 Colors in Terminals # # Define to add support for using 88 colors in terminals. Note that this # requires a capable terminal emulator, such as: # # - Thomas Dickey's XTerm, version 111 or later (check which version you have # with xterm -version) compiled with --enable-88-color. # # - Rxvt, version 2.7.9 or later compiled with --enable-88-color. # # You will still need to enable this at runtime for a given terminal in terminal # options, or set your $TERM variable to xterm-88color - then, ELinks will # automatically configure itself to make use of all the available terminal # features, while still acting sensibly when you happen to run it in an xterm # w/o the 88 colors support. # # When enabled, the memory usage is somewhat increased even when running in mono # and 16 colors mode (the memory consumption can be especially remarkable when # rendering very large documents and/or using very large terminals). However, # when you actually run it in the suitable terminal, it looks really impressive, # I'd say marvelous! # # Default: disabled CONFIG_88_COLORS=no ### 256 Colors in Terminals # # Define to add support for using 256 colors in terminals. Note that this # requires a capable terminal emulator, such as: # # - Thomas Dickey's XTerm, version 111 or later (check which version you have # with xterm -version) compiled with --enable-256-color. # # - Rxvt, version 2.7.9 or later compiled with --enable-256-color. # # - Recent versions of PuTTY also have some support for 256 colors. # # You will still need to enable this at runtime for a given terminal in terminal # options, or set your $TERM variable to xterm-256color - then, ELinks will # automatically configure itself to make use of all the available terminal # features, while still acting sensibly when you happen to run it in an xterm # w/o the 256 colors support. # # When enabled, the memory usage is somewhat increased even when running in mono # and 16 colors mode (the memory consumption can be especially remarkable when # rendering very large documents and/or using very large terminals). However, # when you actually run it in the suitable terminal, it looks really impressive, # I'd say marvelous! # # Default: disabled CONFIG_256_COLORS=no ### Ex-mode Interface # # The ex-mode interface makes a prompt available when pressing ':'. The prompt # can be used for entering actions like ':goto-url' and configuration file # commands. # # The code is still very experimental and lacks much work such as tab # completion. # # Default: disabled CONFIG_EXMODE=no ### LEDs # # These are the tiny LED-like indicators, shown at the bottom-right of the # screen as [-----]. They are used for indication of various states, e.g. # whether you are currently talking through a SSL-secured connection, # what is the current input mode (normal or insert), JavaScript errors etc. # # Default: enabled CONFIG_LEDS=yes ### Document Marks # # Makes it possible to set marks in a document and then later jump to them kind # of like how fragments in URIs work. It is currently only possible to jump to # marks set in the current document. # # Default: enabled CONFIG_MARKS=yes ### Debug mode # # Assertions are evaluated and will core dump on failure. Some extra sanity # checks are done, and some errors will cause core dump instead of just a # message. Internal memory leak detection is activated (memory usage will grow), # and every allocation/reallocation/free operations will be slower due to extra # tests. Lists sanity checks are enabled, so list operations are slower. Hot-key # debugging is enabled, it highlights redundant hot-keys in a menu. # # This option should be _always_ used by beta testers and developers, it helps # to detect many issues. Binary packages maintainers should not use this option # in normal situation. # # Default: disabled CONFIG_DEBUG=no ### Fast mode # # This option provides a way to generate a faster and smaller binary of a # _stable_ version of ELinks. Please do not use it with unstable releases # (unless memory footprint, performance and/or binary size are major issues for # you). # # It disables all assertion tests and sanity checks effectively reducing safety. # It disables internal memory allocation routines, directly calling libc # functions (so it's much faster, but memory allocation issues and memory leaks # will be not detected). It defines fmem_alloc(), and fmem_free() to be in fact # alloca() and nothing, providing much faster allocations in routines where they # are used # # Default: disabled CONFIG_FASTMEM=no ### Own C library functions # # Enable this to use the various C library stub functions that is part of the # portability layer instead of those available in the C library on the system. # # It will make the binary slightly bigger and should only be used for testing # the portability layer. # # Default: disabled CONFIG_OWN_LIBC=no ### Small binary # # Reduces the size of the binary but also disables a few memory consuming # optimizations to make the program much lighter when running. # # Part of the size reduction is due to various help text not being compiled in # which will affect usability. Also the disabled optimization will make ELinks # run slower. # # See doc/small.txt for more information about how to reduce the size of ELinks. # # Default: disabled CONFIG_SMALL=no ### Unicode UTF-8 support # # By enabling this option you get better Unicode support. At present only some # parts of ELinks are influenced with this. It includes DOM, plain, HTML # renderer and user interface. Beside normal Unicode characters there is # support for double-width characters (like Japanese, etc.). # # Some features of Unicode are not handled at all. Combining characters is # most visible absence. # Some features are partially supported. Like line breaking between # double-width characters. There is no other detection for determining when to # break or not. # # Note: This UTF-8 support is experimental. # # Default: disabled CONFIG_UTF_8=no ### Back-trace Printing # # Once upon a time, a disaster happens and ELinks crashes. That is a very sad # event and it would be very nice to have some means how to diagnose it. In the # crash handler, ELinks prints out various helpful things, however the truly # important information is _where_ did it crash. Usually, users do not have gdb # installed and can't provide a back-trace. However, ELinks can print a # back-trace on its own, if the system supports it (currently, it is implemented # only for glibc). It is not always accurate, it is useless when the ELinks # binary is stripped and it still misses a lot of important information, but it # can be sometimes still an indispensable help for the developers. # # You should keep this, unless you will strip your ELinks binary anyway, you # know you are not going to report back any failures and you care about each # single wasted bit. # # Default: enabled if the libc supports it (only glibc) CONFIG_BACKTRACE=yes ### Disable Root User # # Browsers are scary monsters used for traveling around in an even more scary # world where people indifferently throw garbage files at you and threaten your # perfect world. Altho' ELinks is a small monster compared to most browsers, it # can still bite your head off and some might consider running it as the root # user extremely dangerous. To prevent such usage simply enable this feature. # # Default: disabled CONFIG_NO_ROOT_EXEC=no # vim: filetype=sh textwidth=80