because this is not my service I wish to tamper with config files as
little as possible.
If there is not a command line only method to accomplish this task, much
like the -useragent one, then never mind.
thanks for all the ideas but again I am not interested in altering
lynx.cfg in any fashion.
Karen
On Fri, 15 Nov 2019, Tim Chase wrote:
Karen,
You can combine Thorsten's advice to use "-cfg=FILENAME" with my
previous shell-alias suggestion, which is what I've done in the past
to specify a local config file. With that in place, you can set your
default home-page in your local lynx config file (say, ~/.lynx.cfg)
echo "STARTFILE:https://example.com"; >> ~/.lynx.cfg
and then have your function/alias specify the config file:
lynx() { command lynx -cfg=$HOME/.lynx.cfg "$@" ; }
I happen to like the TEXTFIELDS_NEED_ACTIVATION:TRUE set in my .cfg
file too, so this is how I get that behavior every time.
-tim
On 2019-11-15 22:56, 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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