A subset of handy options that might deviate from the defaults.
Refer to $HOME/.w3m/config or the options dialog (CTRL-O) for a vast amount of other configuration (including the dictionary command handling, mouse/image support, custom directories and external file paths, proxy, ssl and charset settings, etc.)
Display settings
# Auto preview link url display_link 1# Ascii entity renderings graphic_char 2# no images display_image 0# activate external image viewer ext_image_viewer 1 imgdisplay w3mimgdisplay
Color settings
color 1 basic_color terminal anchor_color green image_color cyan form_color blue mark_color yellow bg_color terminal active_style 0 visited_anchor 0
Misc settings
use_history 1 history 100 save_hist 1 confirm_qq 1 mark 1 mark_all_pages 0 wrap_search 1 ignorecase_search 1 keymap_file keymap
External program settings
# Open page in the default browser or Opera extbrowser xdg-open %s extbrowser2 opera %s# Append url to $NOTES or the jrnl CLI app extbrowser3 url=%s out_file=$NOTES && echo $url >> $out_file && echo $url saved to $out_file && read s extbrowser4 url=%s && jrnl @link $url && echo $url saved to journal && read s# Copy url to the tmux or the X paste buffer extbrowser7 url=%s && printf %s "$url" | xargs tmux set-buffer extbrowser8 url=%s && printf %s "$url" | xsel && printf %s "$url" | xsel -b &# Auto enable VIM html file type for editor command editor vim -c "set filetype=html"# run external viewers/commands in background bgextviewer 1
Network settings
# Modify user-agent string and languages accepted user_agent accept_language en;q=1.0# auto-populate with current URL in URL open command default_url 1# follow meta refresh meta_refresh 1
Cookie settings (likely default)
use_cookie 1 show_cookie 0 accept_cookie 1 accept_bad_cookie 0 cookie_reject_domains cookie_accept_domains