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 >>>> mailto:mweeby at verizon.net >>>> MSN only: mweeby at earthlink.net >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Speakup mailing list >>>> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >>>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >>> >>> -- >>> The Moon is Waning Gibbous (94% of Full) >>> But you can still get downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Speakup mailing list >>> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- dan Murphy mailto:mweeby at verizon.net MSN only: mweeby at earthlink.net http://mysite.verizon.net/mweeby
