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diff --git a/network/elinks/README b/network/elinks/README index 97574a8664..e40cc46f9e 100644 --- a/network/elinks/README +++ b/network/elinks/README @@ -1,10 +1,8 @@ -elinks (ELinks - Full-Featured Text WWW Browser) - -ELinks is an advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web -(HTTP/FTP/..) browser. ELinks can render both frames and tables, is +Elinks is an advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web +(HTTP/FTP/..) browser. Elinks can render both frames and tables, is highly customizable, and can be extended via Lua or Guile scripts. It -is very portable and runs on a variety of platforms. It also uses -SpiderMonkey javascript support. +is very portable and runs on a variety of platforms. It also has +(very limited) JavaScript support via SpiderMonkey (js185). There are a number of options that can be used to add support for other protocols etc. To enable or disable an option use the following @@ -14,8 +12,6 @@ MOUSE=no ./elinks.SlackBuild Several options can be combined together. -OPTIONS - Category Description Default Value System: @@ -55,12 +51,40 @@ DATA yes FSP no FTP yes FINGER no -GOPHER no +GOPHER (use internal gopher code, see note below) no NNTP no SMB no Note that Unicode combining characters is marked as experimental. -Optional dependencies apart from scripting languages stated above: +Contributed Patches: + +Thanks goes to B. Watson for the following two patches: + +No Suspend Patch + +Elinks sometimes has problems resuming if it has been suspended with ^Z. +To apply a patch that disables ^Z, ^S and ^Q suspend/pause/resume keys +so that they are available to bind in elinks: + + NO_SUSPEND=yes + +No Connect Patch. + +Sometimes when quitting and another client is running on the same +session-ring, the process will freeze and require killing manually. +This patch solves that by making elinks use '-no-connect 1' by default. +It won't be possible to open links in new windows with this, but using +URI passing is a workaround. + + NO_CONNECT=yes + +Auto-detected Dependencies: + +js185: SpiderMonkey (can be turned off in options). +tre: regexp support in searches. -tre: for regex search support +Other included patches help make the internal gopher support usable. By +default elinks will hand gopher URLs to lynx if the GOPHER option isn't +set. Using the internal gopher client has the advantage of having +combined http and gopher bookmarks, and a more uniform interface. |