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# 1.3 Popup Menu

# [Version 0.82]

### Page Contents

- 1.3.1 Using the Popup Menu
- 1.3.2 File Menu
- 1.3.3 View Menu
- 1.3.4 Link Menu
- 1.3.5 Downloads Menu
- 1.3.6 Setup Menu
- 1.3.7 Help Menu

### 1.3.1 Using the Popup Menu

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.

### 1.3.2 File Menu

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.

### 1.3.3 View Menu

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].

### 1.3.4 Link Menu

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.

### 1.3.5 Downloads Menu

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.

### 1.3.6 Setup Menu

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.

### 1.3.7 Help Menu

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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