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links - lynx-like alternative character mode WWW browser
links
[options] URL
links is a text mode WWW browser with ncurses
interface, supporting colors, correct table rendering, background downloading,
menu driven configuration interface and slim code.
Frames are supported.
You can have different file formats associated with external viewers. mailto:
and telnet: are supported via external clients.
links can handle local (file://)
or remote (http://
or ftp://) URLs.
Most options can be set in the
user interface or config file, so usually you do not need to care about
them.
- -g
- Run Links in graphics mode. If not given, Links will run in text
mode. Running in graphics mode means that Links will probe all compiled-in
graphics devices and run on the first found. If none found, links will not
run in text mode. This option works only if --enable-graphics was given to
./configure.
- -mode <parameter>
- Pass a parameter to the graphics driver. On SVGAlib,
this is widthxheightxdepth, (where depth is 16, 256, 32K, 64K, 16M or 16M32)
and defines the graphics mode, on X the format is widthxheight and defines
the window size.
- -async-dns <0>/<1>
- Asynchronous DNS resolver on(1)
/off(0).
- -max-connections <max>
- Maximum number of concurrent connections. (default: 10)
- -max-connections-to-host <max>
- Maximum number of concurrent connection to a
given host. (default: 2)
- -retries <retry>
- Number of retries. (default: 3)
- -receive-timeout <sec>
- Timeout on receive. (default: 120)
- -unrestartable-receive-timeout
<sec>
- Timeout on non restartable connections. (default: 600)
- -format-cache-size
<num>
- Number of formatted document pages cached. (default: 5)
- -memory-cache-size
<Kbytes>
- Cache memory in Kilobytes. (default: 1024)
- -http-proxy
<host:port>
- Host
and port number of the HTTP proxy, or blank. (default: blank)
- -ftp-proxy
<host:port>
- Host and port number of the FTP proxy, or blank. (default: blank)
- -download-dir <path>
- Default download directory. (default: actual dir)
- -assume-codepage
<codepage>
- Use the given codepage when the webpage did not specify its codepage.
(default: ISO 8859-1)
- -anonymous
- Restrict links so that it can run on an
anonymous account. No local file browsing. No downloads. Executing of viewers
is allowed, but user can't add or modify entries in association table.
- -no-connect
- Runs links as a separate instance - instead of connecting to existing instance.
- -version
- Prints the links version number and exit.
- -help
- Printf a help
screen
The keys you may use while navigating are
- PGDN
- page
down
- Space
- page down
- PGUP
- page up
- b
- page up
- B
- page up
- CursorDOWN
- next link/down
(text mode), scroll down (graphics mode)
- CursorUP
- prev link/up (text mode),
up (graphics mode)
- ^INS
- copy to clipboard
- ^C
- copy to clipboard (OS/2 only)
- INS
- scroll up (text mode only)
- ^P
- scroll up
- DEL
- scroll down
- ^N
- scroll down
- [
- scroll left
- ]
- scroll right
- HOME
- home
- END
- end of page
- CursorRIGHT
- enter
link/press button (text mode), scroll right (graphics mode)
- ENTER
- enter
link/press button
- CursorLEFT
- go back (text mode), scroll left (graphics
mode)
- d
- download link (text mode only)
- D
- download link (text mode only)
- /
- search in the page
- ?
- search back in the page
- n
- find next match
- N
- find
next match backwards
- f
- zoom actual frame
- F
- zoom actual frame
- ^R
- reload page
- g
- go to URL
- G
- edit the current URL and goto the result
- s
- bookmark manager
- S
- bookmark manager
- q
- quit, close window if more windows are open
- Q
- quit,
close window if more windows are open
- =
- document informations
- \
- toggle HTML
source/rendered view
- TAB
- next frame (text mode only)
- ESC
- menu/escape
- F9
- menu
- F10
- file menu
The following keys can be used while editing
a line/jumping to a URL:
- CursorRIGHT
- move right
- CursorLEFT
- move left
- HOME
- jump at the beginning
- ^A
- jump at the beginning
- END
- jump at the end
- ^E
- jump
at the end
- ^INS
- copy to clipboard
- ^B
- copy to clipboard
- ^X
- cut to clipboard
(text mode only)
- ^V
- paste from clipboard (text mode only)
- ENTER
- enter line
- BACKSPACE
- delete back character
- ^H
- delete back character
- DEL
- delete character
- ^D
- delete character
- ^U
- delete from beginning of the line
- ^K
- delete to the
end of the line
- ^W
- auto complete line
- ~/.links/.links.cfg
- Per-user
configfile, automatically created by links.
links is known to work
on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, IRIX, HPUX, Digital Unix, AIX, OS/2 and BeOS.
Port for Win32 is in state of beta testing.
Can't connect to some FTP
servers (Novell, NT). Connection stays in "Request sent" state.
Frames don't
work if there's more frames with same name. Turn them off in such case.
You
can't upload large files; it takes _lots_ of memory.
You shoudn't press '^Z'
when you are in a viewer
Please report any other bugs you find to Mikulas
Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
links is free software; you
can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General
Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
links was
written by Mikulas Patocka, Karel 'Clock' Kulhavy, Petr 'Brain' Kulhavy, and
Martin 'PerM' Pergel. See file AUTHORS for a list of people contributing
to this project.
The homepage of links can be found at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~clock/twibright/links
This manual page was written by Peter Gervai <grin@tolna.net>, using excerpts
from a (yet?) unknown links fan for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may
be used by others). Updated by Karel Kulhavy.
lynx(1)
, w3m(1)
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