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

[Jude DaShiell]

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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