ELinks. Use
Once started, ELinks allows a user to do almost all it is capable of by means of its menu. So it is only how to start ELinks and how to do several other things as an example that is explained here.
1) Starting ELinks - ELinks may be run under a GUI environment (X Windows, MS Windows, etc) or some command-line interface. In the first case a terminal emulator / console must be opened before ELinks is to be started: xterm, rxvt, Win32 console and others:
ELinks ( Linux )
To start ELinks, enter command:
elinks
To start ELinks opening a web document from Internet:
elinks [Web address of a web document]
To start ELinks accessing hard disk to browse local files and folders:
elinks file:///
or:
elinks /
To start ELinks opening a local folder:
elinks file:///home/user1/
or:
elinks /home/user1/
To start ELinks opening a local file:
elinks file:///home/user1/document1.htm
or:
elinks /home/user1/document1.htm
ELinks ( Windows )
To start ELinks, enter command:
elinks
To start ELinks opening a web document from Internet:
elinks [Web address of a web document]
To start ELinks accessing hard disk to browse local files and folders:
elinks file:///
To start ELinks opening a local folder:
elinks file://c/home/user1/
To start ELinks opening a local file:
elinks file://c/home/user1/document1.htm
2) To access the menu of ELinks:
Press Esc on keyboard
3) Opening a web document in ELinks already running:
Press g on keyboard or Esc → File → Go to URL → [ Enter a web address ] → Enter
4) Going back:
Left arrow of Arrow keys on keyboard or Esc → File → Go back
5) Opening a link in a new tab in background:
Shift + t or Esc → Link → Open in new tab in background
6) Going to the next tab:
Shift + > or Esc → View → Next tab
7) Closing a tab:
Press c on keyboard or Esc → View → Close tab
8) Passing a URI to an external application when running ELinks in a terminal emulator. There are many applications it is possible to pass a URI to, here it is about passing a URI to clipboard. Setting up this option is explained here:
To pass the URI of the web page ELinks is displaying at the moment to clipboard:
Alt + p
To pass the URI of a highlighted link in a page to clipboard:
Alt + l
9) Editing textarea of forms in an external editor. If ELinks is compiled with external editor support, one or another text editor present in the operating system may be used to handle text in textarea of forms, both in GUI and command-line environment. Setting up this option is explained here. To edit text in textarea of a form:
Move cursor to textarea of the form, press Enter on keyboard to start editing. Ctrl + t to open the external editor set during the configuration process. Enter / edit text in the editor opened. Then:
If it is a GUI editor:
Hit Save in its menu or use a keyboard shortcut, like Ctrl + S to save the text prepared. Close the editor's window - the text entered / edited and saved in the external editor gets to the textarea of the form, ready to be sent.
If it is a text-mode editor, vi or vim for instance:
Esc to exit insert mode, then : [colon] to start entering a command, wq, then Enter to save and quit. The text entered / edited and saved in the external editor gets to the textarea of the form, ready to be sent. If it is not vi or vim, the procedure is still the same, just use the corresponding commands of the editor.
Operating systems
- Linux
- Windows