netrikrc - netrik configuration file

Netrik(1) will read the file ~/.netrikrc (i.e. the file .netrikrc in your home directory), if present, to get default settings.

The file structure is very simple: All options that can be given as command line arguments to netrik can also be listed in this file. Just put all options you wish (including the leading "--") here, one on a line.

As every option also has an inverted version (usually --no-foo instead of --foo, but there are a few excepions), You still can override the defaults from this file by command line options.

You can also specify a URL in the config file, simply putting it on a line without any options. It will serve as a home page: It will be loaded when no other file is given upon netrik invocation, and ignored otherwise.

Note: netrik is still in early development state; options are subject to changes.

--force-colors

Force usage of netrik's default text colors (white on black for normal text), even if the terminal has other defaults. Without this option, netrik tries to adopt to the terminal's default. (Thus keeping the light background of most xterms.)

--no-term-width

When using the pager, this causes a page that contains extremely long words to be rendered wider than the screen, instead of breaking the word. Note however that side scrolling isn't implemented yet -- you won't be able to see the end of the line when using this option... In dump mode, this option causes usage of the default width of 80 columns instead of what the terminal definition says. (Words are always broken in dump mode.)

--fussy-html

Abort on any HTML syntax errors or warnings encountered. A short error description is printed. (This description may not be terribly useful at times...) This mode is primarily intended for HTML debugging. (Note however that netrik may oversee some errors; but most are reported.)

--clean-html

Do not abort on HTML syntax errors. Error descriptions are printed for every syntax error (or warning), but netrik tries to parse the page anyhow. Workarounds are used for some typical syntax errors (e.g. unescaped '<' or if some error(s) were found, a warning message is printed (according to the severity of the worst encountered bug), and the pager starts after a keypress.

--valid-html

This mode is identical to --clean-html, except that netrik doesn't pause after loading completes, if only warnings were generated but no real errors were encountered. (i.e. constructs that are discouraged in the standard, but strictly speaking are valid.)

--broken-html (default)

This mode is identical to --valid-html, except that netrik also doesn't pause if only simple errors with known workaround were encountered, which probably won't disturb layouting. Usage should be avoided if possible. (The file syntax_error.txt or syntax_error.html in the documentation directory (see SEE ALSO below) explains why.)

--ignore-broken

In this mode no warning is showm for any syntax errors, even if they might cause heavily broken layouting. Don't use!

--debug

Before displaying (or dumping) the page, some intermediate layouting stages are shown. (This output is described in the README.) Try it -- it's quite interesting to watch netrik work :-) It can be also useful to find HTML errors in a page, as it dumps the page while loading/parsing it.

(This option is not available if compiled with --disable-debug to ./configure)

--warn-unknown

Issue a warning when encountering an unknown HTML element or attribute. This is probably only useful for debugging purposes, as there are quite a lot of (legal) HTML facilities netrik doesn't know.

--dump

Just dump the file given as argument to the screen and quit, instead of starting the pager. (The page is layouted correctly.)

You may want to give the --bw option also (see below), which will ensure the dump is plain text without any control sequences.

--no-proxy

Ignore the "http_proxy" and "HTTP_PROXY" environment variables with --builtin-http. (No effect on wget! See below.)

--no-builtin-http

Use wget(1) to retrieve pages from a HTTP server, instead of the builtin HTTP handling code. Note that HTTP redirects in most cases cause relative links in the page to be broken when using wget. The builtin HTTP code seems to work good now; using wget shouldn't be necessary. (FTP pages however are always loaded via wget.)

--no-anchor-offset

When jumping to an anchor (following a link with a fragment identifier), the page will be scrolled (if possible) so that the anchor will stand just below the screen top. (In the second line, which is the first line in which links can be activated.) By default, the anchor is at about 1/5 of the screen height below the top.

--cursor-keys

Use the arrow keys to move the cursor, instead of the lynx-like navigation used by default. (This is useful for blind users, as it allows using the "flash cursor" keys found on braille displays.)

--xterm

Assume the terminal has xterm-like attribute handling. (i.e. needs a workaround to display a bright background color.)

This setting is used automatically if the terminal type ($TERM environment variable) contains the string "xterm", so you only need to set it manually if you have some other terminal that also needs that workaround.

Note that this workaround works *only* on xterm (and maybe some other terminals), but not on linux console, so you can't just set it categorically!

--console

Assume the terminal doesn't need and understand the xterm workaround for bright background colors. (See above.)

--dark-background

Use the color definitions from colors-dark.c (formerly colors.alt.c). A black background will be used (even if the terminal uses a bright background by default!), and a set of foreground colors which look very nice on black backgound. (But would be unusable on bright background.)

This is the default now.

--bright-background

Use color definitions from colors-bright.c (formerly colors.default.c). The terminal's default colors will be used for background and normal text, and an alternative color scheme suitable for bright background will be used for other text types.

Use this if you have a terminal with bright background (like most xterms), and also want to stick to that in netrik.

Note that this can be used on a terminal with dark background as well; some colors are somewhat hard to read, however.

--no-force-colors

Use terminal's default colors even with --dark-background, instead of forcing usage of netrik's default text colors (white on black for normal text). This is useful if you use the default (dark) colors and your terminal has a black background anyways -- forcing the default colors is only a waste of time in this situation.

--bw

Start up in b/w mode. Useful to avoid the warning about missing color capabilities if you really have a terminal not capable of switching text colors. Also useful together with --dump option.

--color

Undo --bw option.

The following config file:

--broken-html

--no-anchor-offset

file:///usr/local/share/doc/netrik/index.html

means:

--broken-html: Do not to stop on smaller HTML errors. (Use --valid-html or --clean-html on the command line to override that for a single netrik invocation).

--no-anchor-offset: When going to an anchor, scroll the page so that the anchor will appear at the screen top, instead of 1/5 of the screen hight below the top. (Use --anchor-offset to override.)

file:///usr/local/share/doc/netrik/index.html: When no other file name/URL is specified on the command line, open the netrik documentation overview. (If netrik was installed from a Debian or RPM package, use file:///usr/share/doc/netrik/index.html instead.)

This manual page documents the config file for netrik 1.15.3.

Netrik was created and is maintained by Olaf D. Buddenhagen AKA antrik (<antrik@users.sf.net>), with major contributions from Patrice Neff, Sören Schulze, and others. (For a full listing of all contributors see AUTHORS in the doc directory, see below.)

This man page was created by antrik.

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