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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
