turning on the links are numbered feature in links?

Karen Lewellen klewellen at shellworld.net
Wed Jun 29 19:38:47 UTC 2016


whose local machine?


On Wed, 29 Jun 2016, Jude DaShiell wrote:

> Another possibility, a keyboard macro on local machine aliased so when you go 
> on dreamhost that has your links command line ready to output when you hit 
> the defined macro key.  This way dreamhost has no possible cause for 
> complaint and you get a little convenience.
>
> On Wed, 29 Jun 2016, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>
>>  Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 15:17:56
>>  From: Karen Lewellen <klewellen at shellworld.net>
>>  Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>>  To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>>  Subject: Re: turning on the links are numbered feature in links?
>>
>>  The links are numbered feature works just fine in the edition of elinks we
>>  have on shellworld...for which I am thankful.
>>  The Ubuntu shell dreamhost provides  to its clients does not have  elinks
>>  a
>>  all.
>>  Kare
>> 
>>
>>  On Wed, 29 Jun 2016, Jude DaShiell wrote:
>> 
>> >  That save html options also does nothing and is suspicious in its 
>> >  placement too.  Why is it in the main view menu?  This package with 
>> >  respect to this form of accessibility is broken on panix.com and my hard 
>> >  drive.  Something else suspicious, you're not told what keys you can hit 
>> >  inside menus to change menu configuration items.
>> > 
>> >  Lastly links or links2 is better than elinks with respect to 
>> >  accessibility. The html-links-are-numbered option is missing from 
>> >  elinks.
>> > 
>> >  On Wed, 29 Jun 2016, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>> > 
>> > >   Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 13:21:30
>> > >   From: Karen Lewellen <klewellen at shellworld.net>
>> > >   Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>> > >   To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>> > >   Subject: Re: turning on the links are numbered feature in links?
>> > > 
>> > >   Hi Tim,
>> > >   Thanks for this.  here is how I solved the problem.
>> > >   Jude is correct that changing the option in the menu does not work,
>> > >   although it might if you make the change then choose the save html 
>> > >  options
>> > >   , I am not sure.
>> > >   Invoking the option as you provided  does indeed turn on  the 
>> > >   feature, 
>> > >  but
>> > >   not permanently.
>> > >   so I invoked the option, then went to view and chose the save  html
>> > >   options choice while the feature was working.
>> > >   I did look for the html.cfg file.
>> > >   However dreamhost must put this somewhere else  because I could not 
>> > >   find 
>> > >  a
>> > >   file with that name.
>> > >   Regardless the problem is solved and I thank you for providing a 
>> > >  solution.
>> > >   Kare
>> > > 
>> > > 
>> > >   On Wed, 29 Jun 2016, Tim Chase wrote:
>> > > 
>> > > >   On June 29, 2016, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>> > > > >     can anyone tell me swiftly where to find the option?
>> > > > >   You can invoke it with
>> > > > >   links -html-numbered-links 1
>> > > > >   or by using the menu:
>> > > > >   View -> Html Options -> "Links are numbered"
>> > > > >   or by editing ~/.links2/html.cfg and adding/editing the following
>> > > >   line:
>> > > > >   html_numbered_links 1
>> > > > >   Hope this helps,
>> > > > >   -tim
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