

For ease of use, the additional method argument can be omitted in which case any URL arguments will be opened in newįollowing is a list of the supported methods: The option takes an additional argument containing the method which should be invoked and any remote Control a remote ELinks instance by passing commands to it. Prevents printing of references (URIs) of document links in dump output. Note that this really affects only -dump, nothing else. Prevents printing of link number in dump output.

It forces default configuration values to be usedĪnd disables saving of runtime state files. See also -touch-files.ĭisables creation and use of files in the user specific home configuration directory ( ~/.elinks). Written to the disk when this option is used. Note that normally no runtime state files (bookmarks, history, etc.) are Run ELinks as a separate instance instead of connecting to an existing instance. lookup Look up specified host and print all DNS resolved IP addresses. long-help Print detailed usage help and exit.
ELINKS BROWSER OFFLINE
Restricts ELinks to work offline and only connect to servers with local addresses (ie. Useful when using ELinks as an external viewer from MUAs. _special_files = 1' -force-html Makes ELinks assume documents of unknown types are HTML. eval Specify configuration file directives on the command-line which will be evaluated after all configuration files has been read. dump-charset (alias for )Ĭodepage used when formatting dump output. Print formatted plain-text versions of given URLs to stdout. It forces use of default keybindings and will reset user-defined ones on save. When set, all keybindings from configuration files will be ignored. The default MIME type used for documents of unknown type. default-mime-type (alias for fault_type) config-help Print help for configuration options and exit. Name of the configuration file that all configuration options will be read from and written to. config-dump Print a configuration file with options set to the built-in defaults to stdout. Is assumed to be relative to your HOME directory. Path of the directory ELinks will read and write its config and runtime state files to instead of ~/.elinks.

The ID maps to information that will be used when creating the new instance. Used internally when opening ELinks instances in new windows. Is allowed, but entries in the association table can't be added or modified.Īutomatically submit the first form in the given URLs. Local file browsing, downloads, and modification of options will be disabled. Restricts ELinks so it can run on an anonymous account. The output of running ELinks with the option -long-help. Note that this list is roughly equivalent to Most options can be set in the user interface or config file, so usually you do not need to care about them.
ELINKS BROWSER MANUAL
The homepage of ELinks can be found at, where the ELinks manual is also hosted.

Additional protocol support exists for BitTorrent finger, Gopher, SMB and NNTP. The main supported remote URL protocols are HTTP, HTTPS (with SSL support compiled in) andįTP. mailto: and telnet: are supported via external clients.ĮLinks can handle both local files and remote URLs. You can have different file formats associated with external viewers. ELinks is a text mode WWW browser, supporting colors, table rendering, background downloading, menu driven configuration interface, tabbed browsingįrames are supported.
