Hello ELinks users and devs,
I discovered ELinks very recently - it is becoming my main browser.
Fast, uncluttered, light on the CPU, configurable, daring to be
different (link numbers? nice). Many unlikely things turned out possible
after some searching. Superb work!
Here are a few questions that remain for me:
* I would very much like to switch cookies on or off on the fly, with a
single keystroke, like toggling images or link numbers. Same for
ECMAScript. But I don't find these as actions in the keybinding manager.
Is there a general way to bind keys to settings otherwise available via
the options manager? So I mean something like 'bind Alt-C to
Options>Cookies>Accept_policy(0) & bind Alt-Shift-C to
Options>Cookies>Accept_policy(2)', of even better a single keystroke
that toggles the value.
* ... and if the toggle state could show up in the LED area that would
be super cool.
* I haven't quite figured out the MIME type stuff yet. Going by some
info on the web, I set File type handlers > image_viewer > and then two
options: (1) > unix, which has "eog %" (Eye of Gnome) as its associated
program, and (2) > unix-xwin which has "img2txt -W 138 -d fstein -f utf8
%" which creates a Unicode impression of the picture within the
terminal. Whenever I hit an image, option (2) is used. But that is not
always what I want. Is it possible to associate a keystroke with
displaying the image via "eog %", while keeping the img2text options as
the default? (The idea is that I can get some idea of the picture
without leaving the terminal via img2txt, and if I decide I want to see
it for real, then I open it with the external image viewer.)
* In Firefox etc, after writing in a textarea, I tend to select all and
copy to clipboard before hitting the 'submit' button. Then I don't lose
my writing if the submit process goes awry. But in the terminal/ELinks
the usual Ctrl-a Ctrl-c doesn't do the trick, and shift-mouse-selecting
does not cleanly capture the area content either. Is there a solution?
* Since I've set a homepage URI, when I open a new tab it opens that
page rather than ask me for a URI. I liked the latter behaviour. Is it
possible to retain it, while still having a homepage accessible through 'H'?
In addition, two 'feature requests':
* Adjustable-width empty margins between the displayed text and the
terminal window border. That can increase readability quite a bit: text
running right up to the window border hurts my eyes. Arguably this could
be left to the terminal application, which may be able to fine-tune it
in pixels, whereas ELinks might have to use lines and columns as units
(?). And indeed I found a config setting for gnome-terminal that does
it. But also arguably, it would be nice to have it within ELinks
independent of the terminal, and easily changed on the fly via the
options manager?
* Still more css and javascript support would be neat (I can imagine
that ain't easy) ...
If anyone can provide answers, that'd be very welcome. Finally, many,
many thanks to the developers!
cheerio,
'Xiha'
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