A couple of elinks questions.

[Dan Murphy]

Hi chuck.  I'm running Slackware 10.1, but I can't figur te out where the 
"sample" elinks.conf file is.
I'm sure it differs between distros, but would you happen to know where 
I might look?
Thanks.
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Charles Hallenbeck 
wrote:

> Hi Shaun,
>
> The failure to save the options happened to me too, and rather than
> solve the problem, I avoided it by editing the initial file and adding
> selected statements taken from the sample elinks.conf.
>
> Be careful not to press enter when on a form field such as the username
> and password, but move from field to field with up or down arrows,
> pressing enter only when you want to submit the form. In other words, if
> you are on the username field, press down arrow to the password field,
> enter "admin" or whatever, and then press enter. Mine worked fine on my
> Linksys router.
>
> Chuck
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 10:31:41AM -0700, Sean McMahon wrote:
>> Now I have a few elinks questions.  When I tell it to save my changes to the
>> configuration like link numbering for example, it says it is but then they are
>> not saved once I exit the browser and re-enter it.  What's going on here?  Also,
>> how do you get elinks to behave properly on webpages which require a
>> user/password to be supplied?  This one in particular is my router setup page.
>> lynx gives the prompt for username/password while elinks simply trys to submit
>> the empty form, not prompting me and I get an authentication error.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Charles Hallenbeck" <chuckh at hhs48.com>
>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>> Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2005 2:04 AM
>> Subject: Re: A couple of elinks questions.
>>
>>
>>> Hi Dan,
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 09:49:17PM -0400, Dan Murphy wrote:
>>>> I've just about ditched the cat, so to speak, and I'm very impressed with
>>>> elinks, but I need a few pointers on setting it up to work with speakup.
>>>
>>> Me too. I have not used the cat since first firing up elinks, except
>>> once to retrieve some old bookmarks.
>>>
>>>> Are there specific things that I should change in the configuration
>>>> section?
>>>
>>> What I did was to go through the example elinks.conf file which shows
>>> all the defaults, and copy the lines I wanted to change over to a new
>>> elinks.conf file to use as my actual configuration. There were maybe a
>>> half dozen or so I changed.
>>>
>>>> Also I do have a problem.  If I use "g" to go to another URL,
>>>> how do I first clear the stuff from the previous page away so I can view
>>>> the new content?
>>>
>>> Mine clears away the old contents once the new page is loaded, although
>>> if it takes a few seconds to display the new page, the old contents
>>> remain on the screen until then. If you get mixed contents after waiting
>>> for the new page to load completely, I cannot answer your question.
>>>
>>>> Lastly, what's the deal with submitting input to forms?
>>>
>>> The default behavior is to require an initial CR on a form field before
>>> entering data, and another when data entry is complete. I changed mine
>>> to not require either one, and also to perform an automatic submission
>>> when <enter> is pressed on a form field. Your elinks.conf file should
>>> contain these two lines to accomplish that:
>>>
>>> set document.browse.forms.insert_mode = 0
>>> -
>>> set document.browse.forms.confirm_submit = 0
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>> Welcome.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Dan Murphy
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>>>>
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