[elinks-users] Various elinks questions from a soon-to-be-former? Lynx user

[Kelly Jones]

Didn't see these when I skimmed the docs:

 % On MediaWiki "recent changes" pages like:

http://wiki.lspace.org/wiki/Special:Recentchanges

elinks tends to skip over some links (when I use "down arrow" for
"next link"). How to fix this? Does elinks have multiple HTML parsing
modes like lynx does? Lynx has things like SWITCH_DTD and SOFT_DQUOTES
that affect how HTML is parsed. Usually, switching modes in lynx fixes
any "broken" pages.

 % Can I bind multiple keystrokes? I want "ctrl-x ctrl-e" in a
 textarea to bring up my external editor, just like it does in Lynx.

 % Can I rename my tabs? Naming them after the page title isn't always great.

 % I created a 'rand' protocol that takes me to '%c/../Special:Random'
 (random page on some MediaWikis). Can I hotlink this to a single
 keystroke? I realize "grand<ENTER>" isn't much to type (or even
 "g<UP><ENTER>" if I'm doing it many times), but I'm lazy.

 % I edited the key-map so that '1' = "Move to the end of the document"
 and '7' = "Move to the start of the document", but these don't work
 because typing 1 gives me "Keyboard prefix: 1". How turn of "keyboard
 prefix"?

 % I want <TAB> in a textentry box to move to the next form field. How
 can I do this?

 % Can I make 'ctrl-g' do the same thing as 'Cancel' on menus?

 % Can elinks handle RSS feeds? (doesn't seem to, but I wasn't sure)

 % Are there %-escapes other than %c and %s in protocols? I want a
 protocol for "edit this page" when on a MediaWiki. Something like
 "%server-of-current-URL/index.php?title=%path-of-current-URL&action=edit"

 % I've tweaked Lynx to perma-cache a copy of a document when I
 bookmark it (so I'll always have a local copy). Where does elinks
 store the source of the currently viewed documents? Can I hack it so
 that "add bookmark" also saves the source of the current page
 somewhere?

 % Can I bind "(" and ")" to be 10 times INSERT/DELETE (ie, scroll 10
 lines or 20 lines or whatever-- mimicking Lynx's "half page scroll"
 function)?

 % I accidentally deleted some existing protocols (I had 'd'elete
 selected instead of 'i'nformation). Where can I get back the complete
 list?

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