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


From: Karen Lewellen
Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] changing lynx default homepage from the comand line?
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2019 22:57:06 -0500 (EST)

to be sure, there are ten of them, none  of which have my name on it.
Which is why I have stated my goal has never been to involve the lynx.cfg file in any fashion.



On Sat, 16 Nov 2019, Jude DaShiell wrote:

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 <address@hidden>
To: Thorsten Glaser <address@hidden>
Cc: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
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


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