Karen, You can combine Thorsten's advice to use "-cfg=FILENAME" with my previous shell-alias suggestion, which is what I've done in the past to specify a local config file. With that in place, you can set your default home-page in your local lynx config file (say, ~/.lynx.cfg)
echo "STARTFILE:https://example.com" >> ~/.lynx.cfg and then have your function/alias specify the config file: lynx() { command lynx -cfg=$HOME/.lynx.cfg "$@" ; } I happen to like the TEXTFIELDS_NEED_ACTIVATION:TRUE set in my .cfg file too, so this is how I get that behavior every time. -tim On 2019-11-15 22:56, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Karen Lewellen dixit: > > > I am seeking a command line method to override the site listed > > as the homepage for lynx regularly, i. e. the page that appears > > if i just entre lynx. > > Then don’t enter just lynx ;-) > > Otherwise, you can override the homepage in the lynx.cfg file. > Since you’re on a shellserver you cannot do that system-wide, > but you can copy the system-wide one into your home directory > and use the -cfg=FILENAME option to point to the changed file. > > > The idea is to change this default homepage, not just simply > > visit a new site once. > > But the “homepage” is only shown if you don’t tell it a site > to visit when starting. > > It’s probably easiest to make an alias, something like this: > > echo "alias 'ly=lynx http://the.new.start.site'" >>~/.bashrc > > Then typing ly will start lynx with the other start page. > Easier than doing the config dance, unless you need that anyway. > > bye, > //mirabilos > -- > FWIW, I'm quite impressed with mksh interactively. I thought it was > much *much* more bare bones. But it turns out it beats the living > hell out of ksh93 in that respect. I'd even consider it for my > daily use if I hadn't wasted half my life on my zsh setup. :-) -- > Frank Terbeck in #!/bin/mksh > > _______________________________________________ > Lynx-dev mailing list > Lynx-dev@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list Lynx-dev@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev