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Links' popup menu is a convenient way to access commands and configurations settings. To activate the menu, press your <ESC> key, or single click any mouse button on the top line of your screen.
Menu navigation works equally well with keystrokes, mouse clicks or "hot keys". The latter works by pressing a (case insensitive) key sequence which corresponds to the highlighted character in each menu item. An example is <ESC>-v-i which produces the "Document Info" dialog box.
| Goto URL | activates popup box to type in URL or file location. |
| Go back | displays previously displayed document at the point where it was left. |
| Reload | Gets a fresh copy of the current document from the host server. |
| Save as | Popup box to save a copy of the current document in the default downloads directory. |
| Save URL as | Popup box to download the current link's file and save to default downloads directory. |
| Kill Background Connections | Stops files being transferred and loaded. |
| Flush all caches | Clears the Links document cache. |
| Resource info | Popup box with information about the jobs Links is currently processing. |
| Memory Info | Popup box showing memory usage of Links' processes. Select the [Mark] button to enable comparisons between two points in time. |
| OS shell | Escapes to a new shell process. |
| Exit | Close Links. |
| Search | Popup box to enter forward search phrase. |
| Search back | Popup box to enter backward search phrase. |
| Find next | Searches for the screen with the next instance of search term. |
| Find previous | Searches for the screen with the previous instance of search term. |
| Toggle html/plain | Switch from a rendered view to a source view, and vice versa. |
| Document info | Displays information from the document header. |
| Assume character set | If a displayed document is not hard-coded with the character set
Links should use, this provides a default set. See also "Character Sets" [2.2]. |
The "Link menu" is a set of context menus, which displays as follows.
Context menu: Document link
| Follow link | Requests linked document then displays it. |
| Download link | Requests linked document and saves it to the default downloads directory. |
Context Menu: Image link
| Display usemap > | If the link is an embedded usemap image, a submenu of links is generated for you to follow. |
| View image | If your file extensions and associated applications have been configured, the linked image file will be requested and passed to your image viewer for display. (See "File Extensions and Associations" [2.4].) |
| Download image | Image file is downloaded and saved to your downloads directory. |
Context Menu: Form submit button
| Submit form | Sends form data to the host server and displays the returned file or document. |
| Submit form and download | Sends form data to the host server, then saves the returned file or document to your default downloads directory. |
| No downloads | Simply means there are no active downloads. |
| "URL(s) displayed" | Any active downloads are listed here. If you select a listed active download, the popup box which you would have first seen when requesting the download will be displayed again. |
A full discussion of Links' setup options in the "Configuring Links" [2.x] part of this manual.)
| Character set | Sets the display character set for Links' display. (Note: the character sets which your terminal can display depends upon your Terminal program and the character sets (codepages) compiled into the operating system or loaded as modules.) |
| Terminal options | Options for enabling colour and various kinds of frames support. |
| Network Options | Setting HTTP and FTP proxy hosts, plus parameters which Links must use when making requests. |
| Cache | Number of documents and size of cache available to Links. |
| Associations > | Applications associated with MIME types, so an external program can handle certain file types, such as .pdf, .png, and .ps files. |
| File extensions > | Local MIME type settings. |
| Save options | Save any changes made to your setup though the menu system during this session. |
| About | Current version information. |
| Keys | An incomplete but useful list of keystrokes. |
| Copying | Copyright information. |
| User Reference Manual for Links Version 0.82 |
Revision Date: 2000-02-16 |
Copyright (C) 2000 Cliff Cunnington, <cliff@ccnet.demon.nl>
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