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Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx jump files


From: Find Marbles
Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx jump files
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2022 13:35:28 +0200

Yes, lynx is amazing but the documentation is a little bit lacking. On one
occasion I had to look through the source code to get some answers.

Anyway as far as the jumps.html is concerned put the links in alphabetical
order or they won't work. So d before g and g before m and so on. This
important information was also somewhere hidden.

Am Sa., 10. Sept. 2022 um 10:47 Uhr schrieb Jude DaShiell <
jdashiel@panix.com>:

> First thanks for this information.  I read the jumpsUnix.html file in
> samples and this was missing from that file.  I probably ought to have
> read the other jumps files in samples and maybe would have come up with
> this information.
>
>
> Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in
> defense of liberty:
>  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
>
> .
>
> On Sat, 10 Sep 2022, Find Marbles wrote:
>
> > The lynx jumpfile is called jumps.html and after creating it put it in
> the
> > same directory as your user lynx.cfg, so somewhere in your home
> directory.
> > If I remember correctly you might need to change some options in your
> user
> > lynx.cfg as well to allow access to the jumpfile. Although that might be
> > only for allowing scripts, as I have one in the example further down
> > (lynx-surfraw.sh)
> >
> > An example of a lynx.html could be:
> >
> > <dt>?<dd><a href="file://localhost/home/findmarbles/lynx/jumps.html">This
> > Shortcut List</a>
> > <dt>d<dd><a href="https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite?kd=-1&kp=-1&q=%s
> ">DuckDuckgo
> > Search</a>
> > <dt>g<dd><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%s";>Google Search</a>
> > <dt>m<dd><a href="https://manned.org/browse/search?q=%s";>Man Pages</a>
> > <dt>s<dd><a
> > href="lynxexec:/home/findmarbles/myscripts/lynx-surfraw.sh">Surfraw
> > Search</a>
> > <dt>w<dd><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=%s
> ">Wikipedia
> > Search</a>
> >
> > Next time you use lynx you could easily just press j and d for a
> duckduckgo
> > search or j and g for a google search and so on.
> >
> > Am Fr., 9. Sept. 2022 um 13:19 Uhr schrieb Jude DaShiell <
> jdashiel@panix.com
> > >:
> >
> > > What file name is a lynx jump file to have so lynx reads that as being
> a
> > > jump file and where does lynx find jump files successfully?
> > >
> > >
> > > Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in
> > > defense of liberty:
> > >  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> > > -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
> > >
> > > .
> > >
> > >
> >
>


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