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                                        elinks(1)

NAME

   elinks - lynx-like alternative character mode WWW browser

SYNOPSIS

   elinks [OPTION]... [URL]...

DESCRIPTION

   ELinks is a text mode WWW browser, supporting colors, table rendering, background
   downloading, menu driven configuration interface, tabbed browsing and slim code.

   Frames are supported. You can have different file formats associated with
   external viewers. mailto: and telnet: are supported via external clients.

   ELinks can handle both local files and remote URLs. The main supported remote URL
   protocols are HTTP, HTTPS (with SSL support compiled in) and FTP. Additional
   protocol support exists for BitTorrent finger, Gopher, SMB and NNTP.

   The homepage of ELinks can be found at [11]http://elinks.cz/, where the ELinks
   manual is also hosted.

OPTIONS

   Most options can be set in the user interface or config file, so usually you do
   not need to care about them. Note that this list is roughly equivalent to the
   output of running ELinks with the option --long-help.

   -anonymous [0|1] (default: 0)
          Restricts ELinks so it can run on an anonymous account. Local file
          browsing, downloads, and modification of options will be disabled.
          Execution of viewers is allowed, but entries in the association table
          can't be added or modified.

   -auto-submit [0|1] (default: 0)
          Automatically submit the first form in the given URLs.

   -base-session  (default: 0)
          Used internally when opening ELinks instances in new windows. The ID maps
          to information that will be used when creating the new instance. You don't
          want to use it.

   -config-dir  (default: "")
          Path of the directory ELinks will read and write its config and runtime
          state files to instead of ~/.elinks. If the path does not begin with a '/'
          it is assumed to be relative to your HOME directory.

   -config-dump
          Print a configuration file with options set to the built-in defaults to
          stdout.

   -config-file  (default: "elinks.conf")
          Name of the configuration file that all configuration options will be read
          from and written to. It should be relative to [12]config-dir.

   -config-help
          Print help for configuration options and exit.

   -default-mime-type (alias for [13]mime.default_type)
          The default MIME type used for documents of unknown type.

   -default-keys [0|1] (default: 0)
          When set, all keybindings from configuration files will be ignored. It
          forces use of default keybindings and will reset user-defined ones on
          save.

   -dump [0|1] (default: 0)
          Print formatted plain-text versions of given URLs to stdout.

   -dump-charset (alias for [14]document.dump.codepage)
          Codepage used when formatting dump output.

   -dump-color-mode (alias for [15]document.dump.color_mode)
          Color mode used with [16]-dump.

   -dump-width (alias for [17]document.dump.width)
          Width of the dump output.

   -eval
          Specify configuration file directives on the command-line which will be
          evaluated after all configuration files has been read. Example usage:

     -eval 'set protocol.file.allow_special_files = 1'

   -force-html
          Makes ELinks assume documents of unknown types are HTML. Useful when using
          ELinks as an external viewer from MUAs. This is equivalent to
          [18]-default-mime-type text/html.

   -?, -h, -help
          Print usage help and exit.

   -localhost [0|1] (default: 0)
          Restricts ELinks to work offline and only connect to servers with local
          addresses (ie. 127.0.0.1). No connections to remote servers will be
          permitted.

   -long-help
          Print detailed usage help and exit.

   -lookup
          Look up specified host and print all DNS resolved IP addresses.

   -no-connect [0|1] (default: 0)
          Run ELinks as a separate instance instead of connecting to an existing
          instance. Note that normally no runtime state files (bookmarks, history,
          etc.) are written to the disk when this option is used. See also
          [19]-touch-files.

   -no-home [0|1] (default: 0)
          Disables creation and use of files in the user specific home configuration
          directory (~/.elinks). It forces default configuration values to be used
          and disables saving of runtime state files.

   -no-numbering (alias for [20]document.dump.numbering)
          Prevents printing of link number in dump output.

          Note that this really affects only [21]-dump, nothing else.

   -no-references (alias for [22]document.dump.references)
          Prevents printing of references (URIs) of document links in dump output.

          Note that this really affects only [23]-dump, nothing else.

   -remote
          Control a remote ELinks instance by passing commands to it. The option
          takes an additional argument containing the method which should be invoked
          and any parameters that should be passed to it. For ease of use, the
          additional method argument can be omitted in which case any URL arguments
          will be opened in new tabs in the remote instance.

          Following is a list of the supported methods:

          + ping(): look for a remote instance
          + openURL(): prompt URL in current tab
          + openURL(URL): open URL in current tab
          + openURL(URL, new-tab): open URL in new tab
          + openURL(URL, new-window): open URL in new window
          + addBookmark(URL): bookmark URL
          + infoBox(text): show text in a message box
          + xfeDoCommand(openBrowser): open new window

   -session-ring  (default: 0)
          ID of session ring this ELinks session should connect to. ELinks works in
          so-called session rings, whereby all instances of ELinks are
          interconnected and share state (cache, bookmarks, cookies, and so on). By
          default, all ELinks instances connect to session ring 0. You can change
          that behaviour with this switch and form as many session rings as you
          want. Obviously, if the session-ring with this number doesn't exist yet,
          it's created and this ELinks instance will become the master instance
          (that usually doesn't matter for you as a user much).

          Note that you usually don't want to use this unless you're a developer and
          you want to do some testing - if you want the ELinks instances each
          running standalone, rather use the [24]-no-connect command-line option.
          Also note that normally no runtime state files are written to the disk
          when this option is used. See also [25]-touch-files.

   -source [0|1] (default: 0)
          Print given URLs in source form to stdout.

   -touch-files [0|1] (default: 0)
          When enabled, runtime state files (bookmarks, history, etc.) are written
          to disk, even when [26]-no-connect or [27]-session-ring is used. The
          option has no effect if not used in conjunction with any of these options.

   -verbose  (default: 1)
          The verbose level controls what messages are shown at start up and while
          running:

          + 0 means only show serious errors
          + 1 means show serious errors and warnings
          + 2 means show all messages

   -version
          Print ELinks version information and exit.

   Generated using output from ELinks version 0.12pre6.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

   COMSPEC, SHELL
          The shell used for File -> OS Shell on DOS/Windows and UNIX, respectively.

   EDITOR
          The program to use for external editor (when editing textareas).

   ELINKS_CONFDIR
          The location of the directory containing configuration files. If not set
          the default is ~/.elinks/.

   ELINKS_TWTERM, LINKS_TWTERM
          The command to run when selecting File -> New window and if TWDISPLAY is
          defined (default twterm -e).

   ELINKS_XTERM, LINKS_XTERM
          The command to run when selecting File -> New window and if DISPLAY is
          defined (default xterm -e).

   FTP_PROXY, HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY
          The host to proxy the various protocol traffic through.

   NO_PROXY
          A comma separated list of URLs which should not be proxied.

   HOME
          The path to the users home directory. Used when expanding ~/.

   WWW_HOME
          Homepage location (as in lynx(1)).

FILES

   Configuration files controlled by ELinks are located in the user configuration
   directory, defaulting to ~/.elinks/. In addition to the files listed below, a
   user defined CSS stylesheet can be defined using the [28]document.css.stylesheet
   option.

   @sysconfdir@/elinks.conf
          Site-wide configuration file.

   ~/.elinks/elinks.conf
          Per-user config file, loaded after site-wide configuration.

   ~/.elinks/bookmarks
          Bookmarks file.

   ~/.elinks/cookies
          Cookies file.

   ~/.elinks/exmodehist
          Exmode history file.

   ~/.elinks/formhist
          Form history file.

   ~/.elinks/globhist
          History file containing most recently visited URLs.

   ~/.elinks/gotohist
          GoTo URL dialog history file.

   ~/.elinks/hooks.{js,lua,pl,py,rb,scm}
          Browser scripting hooks.

   ~/.elinks/searchhist
          Search history file.

   ~/.elinks/socket
          Internal ELinks socket for communication between its instances.

   ~/.mailcap, /etc/mailcap
          Mappings of MIME types to external handlers.

   ~/.mime.types, /etc/mime.types
          Mappings of file extensions to MIME types.

BUGS

   Please report any other bugs you find to the either the ELinks mailing list at
   [29]elinks-users@linuxfromscratch.org or if you prefer enter them into [30]the
   bug tracking system. More information about how to get in contact with developers
   and getting help can be found on [31]the community page.

LICENSE

   ELinks is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms
   of [32]the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
   Foundation; version 2 of the License.

AUTHORS

   The Links browser - on which ELinks is based - was written by Mikulas Patocka
   [33]mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. ELinks was written by Petr Baudis
   [34]pasky@ucw.cz. See file AUTHORS in the source tree for a list of people
   contributing to this project.

   This manual page was written by Peter Gervai [35]grin@tolna.net, using excerpts
   from a (yet?) unknown Links fan for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used
   by others). Contributions from Francis A. Holop. Extended, clarified and made
   more up-to-date by Petr Baudis [36]pasky@ucw.cz. Updated by Zas [37]zas@norz.org.
   The conversion to Asciidoc and trimming was done by Jonas Fonseca
   [38]fonseca@diku.dk.

SEE ALSO

   [39]elinkskeys(5), [40]elinks.conf(5), links(1), lynx(1), w3m(1), wget(1)
     ____________________________________________________________________________

   See the [41]feedback page for information on contacting us. Copyright © 2002-2008
   [42]ELinks; Licensed under [43]GPL.

   Last Modified: 30-Oct-2012 19:48:00 EEST. Validate: [44]CSS [45]XHTML.

References

   1. http://elinks.or.cz/news.rss
   2. http://elinks.or.cz/index.html
   3. http://elinks.or.cz/about.html
   4. http://elinks.or.cz/community.html
   5. http://elinks.or.cz/documentation/index.html
   6. http://elinks.or.cz/download.html
   7. http://elinks.or.cz/faq.html
   8. http://elinks.or.cz/feedback.html
   9. http://elinks.or.cz/news.html
  10. http://elinks.or.cz/search.html
  11. http://elinks.cz/
  12. http://elinks.or.cz/documentation/manpages/elinks.1.html#cmdopt:config-dir
  13. http://elinks.or.cz/documentation/manpages/elinks.conf.5.html#mime.default_type
  14. http://elinks.or.cz/documentation/manpages/elinks.conf.5.html#document.dump.codepage
  15. http://elinks.or.cz/documentation/manpages/elinks.conf.5.html#document.dump.color_mode
  16. http://elinks.or.cz/documentation/manpages/elinks.1.html#cmdopt:dump
  17. http://elinks.or.cz/documentation/manpages/elinks.conf.5.html#document.dump.width
  18. http://elinks.or.cz/documentation/manpages/elinks.1.html#cmdopt:default-mime-type
  19. http://elinks.or.cz/documentation/manpages/elinks.1.html#cmdopt:touch-files
  20. http://elinks.or.cz/documentation/manpages/elinks.conf.5.html#document.dump.numbering
  21. http://elinks.or.cz/documentation/manpages/elinks.1.html#cmdopt:dump
  22. http://elinks.or.cz/documentation/manpages/elinks.conf.5.html#document.dump.references
  23. http://elinks.or.cz/documentation/manpages/elinks.1.html#cmdopt:dump
  24. http://elinks.or.cz/documentation/manpages/elinks.1.html#cmdopt:no-connect
  25. http://elinks.or.cz/documentation/manpages/elinks.1.html#cmdopt:touch-files
  26. http://elinks.or.cz/documentation/manpages/elinks.1.html#cmdopt:no-connect
  27. http://elinks.or.cz/documentation/manpages/elinks.1.html#cmdopt:session-ring
  28. http://elinks.or.cz/documentation/manpages/elinks.conf.5.html#document.css.stylesheet
  29. mailto:elinks-users@linuxfromscratch.org
  30. http://bugzilla.elinks.cz/
  31. http://elinks.cz/community.html
  32. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html
  33. mailto:mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
  34. mailto:pasky@ucw.cz
  35. mailto:grin@tolna.net
  36. mailto:pasky@ucw.cz
  37. mailto:zas@norz.org
  38. mailto:fonseca@diku.dk
  39. http://elinks.or.cz/documentation/manpages/elinkskeys.5.html
  40. http://elinks.or.cz/documentation/manpages/elinks.conf.5.html
  41. http://elinks.or.cz/feedback.html#web
  42. http://elinks.cz/
  43. http://elinks.or.cz/COPYING
  44. http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer
  45. http://validator.w3.org/check/referer