Calmar on Elinks,
the browser for fast people, focusing
the important
Tips for Elinks
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Searching - URI rewriting
Elinks features 'Smart
Prefixes' und 'Dump Prefixes':
They are used for rewriting your input in the 'Go to URL'
textbox. You can enter 'g elinks text browser' and you get
the google search for 'elinks text browser'. That's a 'Smart
Prefix'. When you just enter 'g', it gets replaced with
http://www.google.com - and there you go. That's a 'Dump
Prefix'.
See also 'man elinks.conf' (may search: /smart).
You can setup your own 'Prefixes' in the Option Menu ->
Protocols -> URI Rewriting -> '{Dump/Smart}
Prefixes',
or you may directly write it into your elinks.conf if you
like - I have there e.g.:
set protocol.rewrite.smart.r = "http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%s" (google group search)
set protocol.rewrite.smart.s = "http://www.search.ch/search?q=%s" (swiss search machine)
set protocol.rewrite.dumb.v = "http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=%c" (validate Page)
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Changing Color Mode
Remember, you can change the
colors with the 'toggle-ducument-colors' (Toggle usage of
ducument specific colors) keybinding. Here it's put on
%. That is something quite important, when the colors
don't provide a really good readability.
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Colors and Xterm-256color or so
Download this
color-printer. Run it to
see what colors you have. On a xterm with
TERM=xterm-256color (e.g. in ~/.bashrc) you may get something
like that. Then setup
elinks with that: Setup -> Options Manager -> Terminals
-> xterm-256colors -> Color Mode -> 3 (is 256 color
mode)
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Numbered Links for really fast browsing
I think for
really fast browsing, the option:
set document.browse.links.numbering = 1
needs to be toggled on. Once you're used to type the numbers,
you might be able to access any links withing an eye-blink. You can
toggle that in the menu:
View -> Toggle link numbering
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Abusing Elinks
For a personal project, I was thinking
about making a curses programm, or instead, what is much
easier/time-efficient (to finish it) with almost the same
endresult, a webinterface (via apache-server mysql/sqlite
database) what can accessed via elinks with the same curses
'feeling - or so.
May send comments to: mac@calmar.ws, thanks!