Questions tagged [lynx]
Lynx is a cross platform, GPL licensed, text-mode web browser.
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How to check consistency of a generated web site using recursive HTML parsing
I have a FOSS project whose web site is generated by asciidoc and some custom scripts as an horde (thousands) of static files locally in the source files' repo, copied into another workspace and ...
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lynx - change Line Edit Style / lineedit_mode
What I want to know: What is the name of the variable name in /etc/lynx/lynx.cfg with the option Line Edit Style? I am trying to set it to Bash-like Bindings, but I can't find any documentation on ...
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What are Lynx CGI scripts?
In lynx.cfg, it contains: .h1 CGI scripts # These settings control Lynx's ability to execute various types of scripts. .h2 LOCAL_EXECUTION_LINKS_ALWAYS_ON .h2 LOCAL_EXECUTION_LINKS_ON_BUT_NOT_REMOTE #...
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Lynx browser access and braille
Hello fellow Stack Exchange users can you please help? Does anyone know if there is an ability to adapt webpages for the braille alphabet within the Lynx browser? This seems like the perfect web ...
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DNS lookup from lynx failing to ncbi eutils using ISP DNS but ok with 8.8.8.8
I have several utilities that use the NCBI Eutils server via wget or lynx. Recently, lynx started failing with a DNS error, Looking up eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Making HTTPS connection to eutils.ncbi....
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How to open several local (HTML) documents in lynx?
I was planning to use lynx for reading all local HTML files in a folder: lynx ~/Documents/webpages/* I don't know how to move beyond the first document. Quitting with qq exits the program and returns ...
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Is it possible to multiple login on the same server with wget?
The aim is to enter different accounts at the same time. With lynx this is possible using files for each account with the -cfg=~/file argument. wget has a .wgetrc file that can be configured with: ...
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Using vim as default text editor for lynx
I want to use vim as the text editor while opening a website using lynx. How do I do it? I see a switch present in lynx as -editor=EDITOR but giving -editor=vim makes no difference to lynx.
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