Karen Lewellen <address@hidden> wrote:
I am seeking a command line method to override the site listed as the
homepage for lynx regularly, i. e. the page that appears if i just entre
lynx.
The idea is to change this default homepage, not just simply visit a new
site once.
does that make more sense?
If you can set the WWW_HOME environment variable, lynx will use that as
the startfile.
If you can edit your lynx.cfg file, you can specify the startfile in
that, as in:
STARTFILE:http://thesitethatyouwant.com
I suppose a command line method would be something like entering
WWW_HOME='http://thesitethatyouwant.com'; lynx
on the command line or exporting the WWW_HOME environment variable from
your .profile or .bash_profile i.e. ensuring that the line
export WWW_HOME='http://thesitethatyouwant.com'
is in your .profile (or wherever bash looks for environment variables),
in which case when you launch lynx it will go to that site
There is also an option to launch lynx with the '-book' switch which
will use the bookmark page (if set) as the startfile. (See 'man lynx'
for details.)