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                                Frequently Asked Questions

   This is an attempt to capture some of the questions that appear once in a while
   on the mailing list or on IRC.

I rebuilt/upgraded/reconfigured ELinks and restarted it, but it looks like nothing has
changed!

   ELinks instances connect together so that they share the cache, bookmarks,
   cookies, configuration, etc. Only the "master" ELinks instance does any real work
   and any other ELinkses you run will only connect to this instance. So when you
   want to restart ELinks, make sure you have no other ELinks instances running.

   Alternatively, you can use the -no-connect parameter to make ELinks always run
   standalone, or create a parallel group of ELinks instances with the -session-ring
   N parameter (where N is a number larger than zero). Be aware of that in those
   cases ELinks won't touch any configuration, bookmark, cookies, etc. files. You
   can force that with the -touch-files parameter, but beware that this can result
   in data loss! (For example, when two master ELinks instances try to save the
   bookmarks, and you add a bookmark to each of those, only one of the bookmarks
   survives.)

How does cutting and pasting work?

   The reason why normal cut and paste does not work is that ELinks requests all
   mouse event info even if it is compiled without GPM. Therefore it is necessary to
   hold down the Shift key when cutting or pasting text. If you do not need to use
   the mouse for navigation you can disable mouse support by passing --disable-mouse
   to configure.

How does the "Move" button on the bookmark manager work?

   First you need to mark all the bookmarks (or folders) you want to move. This can
   be done with the Insert key if you're using the default key-bindings. An asterisk
   will appear near all marked bookmarks. Now move to where you want to have the
   stuff moved to, and press the "Move" button.

What's up with the navigation in the various managers?

   The managers use list boxes. To navigate (assuming you're using a default
   key-binding configuration) use Space to open and close the folders.

Why are there so many Links flavors?

   Please refer to the [11]history page to read about the various flavors and the
   differences between them.

Which one to use?

   If you want a fast, stable, and feature-thin text browser, use [12]Links-0.99.
   Main drawbacks include: No HTTP-auth support and no persistent cookies (i.e. they
   die when all instances of Links are closed).

   If you want additional features, including HTTP-auth, persistent cookies, and
   on-the-fly compression, try ELinks. (Note: links-0.9x and ELinks versions > 0.3
   do not share executable name or configuration files so you can safely run these
   on the same machine.)

   If you want the option of graphics mode, use [13]Links2 or [14]Hacked Links. Be
   aware that some people have reported the latter as hard to configure/compile. You
   cannot run either of these with Links-0.9x on the same system without hacking the
   compile-time configuration.

What are the Ki (kibi) and Mi (mebi) units?

   They are binary units defined by [15]the International System of Units. Examples:
   Unit         Definition
   One kibibit  1 Kibit = 2^10 bit = 1024 bit
   One mebibyte 1 MiB = 2^20 B = 1 048 576 B

How can I get 256 colors?

   First, you must enable it in the feature.conf file before compiling.

   Second, you must run ELinks on a terminal that supports 256 colours:
     * [16]Thomas Dickey's XTerm, revision 111. XTerm must be compiled with
       --enable-256-color.
     * Recent versions of [17]PuTTY.

   Third, you must set the TERM environmental variable to xterm-256color before
   running ELinks.
   Note
   Only 16 colors on The Linux console

   Although the Linux frame-buffer supports 256 (or more) colors, the Linux console
   driver does not; therefore, console applications are still limited to 16 colors
   on the Linux console, frame-buffer or not.

What User-Agent header does ELinks send?

   The older ELinks versions (up to 0.4.3) send:
   ELinks ($version; $osinfo; $textmode_dimensions)

   The new ELinks versions (from 0.9.0 on) send:
   ELinks/$version (textmode; $osinfo; $textmode_dimensions)

   You should therefore check against something like /^ELinks[\/ ]/, since more
   fields can be added inside the parenthesis in subsequent versions. Note that
   users can change their User-Agent through the options system.

ELinks doesn't erase characters from the screen when it should!

   When you scroll a web page, you may see ELinks leave some characters on the
   screen even though it should have erased them. Pressing Ctrl+L usually removes
   these droppings until you scroll again. There are a few possible reasons:
     * ELinks 0.11.* in a UTF-8 locale. By default, ELinks guesses the charset of
       the terminal from the environment variables LANG, LC_CTYPE, and LC_ALL.
       ELinks 0.11 versions do not support UTF-8 as this charset. To use ELinks 0.11
       on a UTF-8 terminal, you should instead enable UTF-8 I/O via the Setup ->
       Terminal options dialog box, and choose a charset from Setup -> Character
       set. This limitation has been removed in ELinks 0.12pre1.
     * Web pages may use nonspacing combining characters or Unicode control
       characters that ELinks does not recognize as such. This happens especially on
       [18]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges, where the server
       generates U+200E LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK characters. ELinks 0.13.GIT now has some
       support for these characters; see [19]ELinks bug 824.
     * Some versions of the Terminal application in Mac OS X appear to have a
       setting that makes line-drawing characters take up the space of two ASCII
       letters. ELinks does not expect this. To avoid the incompatibility, either
       disable the setting in the Terminal application or select "No frames" in the
       Terminal options dialog box of ELinks.
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  12. http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mikulas/links
  13. http://links.twibright.com/
  14. http://xray.sai.msu.ru/~karpov/links-hacked/
  15. http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
  16. http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.html
  17. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
  18. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges
  19. http://bugzilla.elinks.cz/show_bug.cgi?id=824
  20. http://elinks.or.cz/feedback.html#web
  21. http://elinks.cz/
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