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.
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.
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.