magnus-isu / lynx-current

Lynx browser from lynx.isc.org

This github repository is modified from version 2.9.0dev.9, which is the download of lynx-cur.tar.gz as of 2021 Sep 28. The makefile installs under /usr/local/bin/, /usr/local/share/man/man1/, and /usr/local/etc/ for the default configuration, at least on my arch linux.

This repository's master branch does not exactly track with Lynx's upstream release. See the named branches if you want that.

To build, you probably want (otherwise see INSTALLATION and files under doc/ )

./configure --with-ssl --with-gnutls --with-gnutls-openssl
make
sudo make install # Or doas, etc

Implemented changes from stock Lynx:

• Supports XDG_BASE_DIRECTORY specification, configuration file is under XDG_CONFIG_HOME/lynx/lynx.cfg by default. Falls back to $HOME/.lynx/lynx.cfg.

Intended features to be added eventually:

• Provide a seperate, better configuration by default (currently see the file lazy_lynx.cfg)
• Allow numbering of links by letters rather than numbers (to follow links from the home row)
• Other stuff? Open an issue

I will also try to keep this up to date with lynx releases, better than the repository this is forked from. Why lynx developers don't use git, though, is beyond me.

The original README seems out of date and less than useful, but it can be found as the README_LYNX file.

lynx-current's Issues

In links_numbered_by_letters, the key to open a link (`f` in lazy_lynx.cfg) will be typed in the textbox

This is obviously not desired behaviour, and is something that changed since the last time I had this working.

In links_numbered_by_letters, links are sometimes offset slightly.

On the website https://www.nice.com.ro/telecomenzi-nice, for example, link e is a dummy link and all links following it are off by one.

I have no idea why this happens. I had this problem the last time I was trying to hack around with lynx too, and it is the reason I didn't try to polish my patches and upstream them.