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

[dan d.]

Multiple ways were offered not involving lynx.cfg.

The only strickly command line approach is to include an url after any lynx 
optionss.

If one wants to avoid doing this each time lynx is used, one of the other 
methodds offered will work.

On Sat, 16 Nov 2019, Karen Lewellen wrote:

> folks,
>   i. do. not. want. to. make. this. change. in lynx.cfg...at all!
> How hard is that to understand?
> I  asked for *command line* not all the ways I might screw up another
> person's setup.
>
>
>
> On Fri, 15 Nov 2019, Bela Lubkin wrote:
>
> > Karen Lewellen wrote:
> >
> >> since this is not my system,
> >> I have no idea where the lynx.cfg file is.
> >
> > While in Lynx, hit 'o' for options.  Near the very bottom is a line,
> >
> >    View the file lynx.cfg.
> >
> > Following the 'lynx.cfg' link, you see a rendition of the active
> > portions of your lynx.cfg.  Near the top of that is a comment:
> >
> >    #Your primary configuration /path/to/system/lynx.cfg
> >
> > ====
> >
> > We can reduce that somewhat.  'LYNXCFG:/' is the URL used in that
> > 'lynx.cfg' link; we can dump that from the shell:
> >
> >    $ lynx -dump LYNXCFG:/ | grep primary.config
> >    #Your primary configuration [4]/path/to/system/lynx.cfg
> >
> > One way to make use of this:
> >
> >    $ cd $HOME
> >    $ echo 'INCLUDE:/path/to/system/lynx.cfg' > .lynx_cfg
> >    $ echo 'STARTFILE:https://www.xyz.abc' >> .lynx_cfg
> >    $ lynx -cfg $HOME/.lynx_cfg   ### opens www.xyz.abc
> >
> > This uses lynx.cfg's INCLUDE command to include the system lynx.cfg by
> > reference.  That way it will keep up with any changes the system
> > administrator might make (as long as they don't replace the lynx binary
> > with one compiled to look in a different location).  Setting STARTFILE
> > *after* the INCLUDE ensures that your setting overrides the system's.
> >
> > Now all you need is one of the various alias techniques mentioned by
> > others...
> >
> >> Bela<
> >
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