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Questions tagged [elinks]

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Arch Linux pacman error: failed retrieving file

I just installed Arch Linux today. I am trying to install elinks using pacman -S elinks And I get a long, long list of: error: failed retrieving file 'elinks-0.13-17-i686.pkg.tar.xz' from some.mirror : Could not resolve host: some.mirror The same…
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StackExchange with Elinks

I use Elinks to browse while I am connected remotely. I am unable to login to stackexchange using my OpenID. I enter the correct URL, and upon submission, I get the "No OpenID endpoint found." text. I am certain that I am entering the correct URL.…
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Force lynx or elinks to interpret spaces and line breaks

Consider the following commands, and their results : $ echo "

a
b
c


"|lynx -dump -stdin a b c $ echo "

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b
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"|elinks -dump a b c Neither prints the correct number…
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Downloading file using command line tool in Linux VM which requires sign-in

Environment: Linux VM which I have access only through command line console. Goal: I need to download the file: https://download.nlm.nih.gov/umls/kss/2020AA/umls-2020AA-full.zip Unlike typical download using wget, this redirects to a sign-in…
Kaushik Acharya
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Alt-< and Alt-> (and possibly some other keys) not working in elinks

I am running elinks (0.12pre5) in an xterm window in Openbox on a Debian netinstall (7.8) with fairly minimal changes/additional software installation. I have changed a few elinks options, but none that seem like they should be relevant to this…
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How to prevent ELinks from staying in scrollback buffer?

After quitting elinks, the browser page history is lingering in my scrollback buffer, and therefore not returning to whatever was buffered on screen when I launched elinks. Inside a GNU screen with altscreen enabled, this does not happen. But in any…
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Display pdftohtml output using elinks -remote option?

The following command works great to view pdf content from the command line: pdftohtml -i -stdout file.pdf |elinks. As should be clear, what's happening is that file.pdf is being converted to html and then piped to the text-mode browser elinks for…
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Host not found trying to restrict access to yahoo.com in elinks using squid

I added this in squid.conf acl blocked_sites dstdomains .yahoo.com http_access deny blocked_sites and this in elinks.conf set protocol.http.proxy.host = "proxy.localhost:3128" set protocol.http.proxy.passwd = "" set protocol.http.proxy.user =…
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elinks -dump not finishing on long url

So I have been working on a little script to alert me when an artist releases a new album using amazon and elinks. Problem is that for some reason elinks will stop half way through the -dump command and not finish. Hopefully someone can see what I…
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How does Elinks render HTML?

I like the elinks browser and I would like to know how does it render the HTML into text, using ANSI styles. I suppose there is a library behind elinks to handle the rendering, or there should be. Is it possible to use that library in another…
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