Re: [Lynx-dev] changing lynx default homepage from the comand line?

[Tim Chase]

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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