The home-linked category

A home-linked category is a category that is referenced in the configuration file as the fully-qualified name of the main home bookmark. For example,

home = "electronics.phones"

In this case,

  • phones is the bookmark name;

  • electronics is the linked category.

  • We call it the "home-linked category" because it provides the bookmark to be launched by hlg when called without any arguments.

A home-linked category gets the same protection as the default category during delete or rename operations, see this page for more.

It is possible to have one category serve as both a default and a home-linked category. A category only becomes a home-linked because it is referenced by the configuration file as holding the main home bookmark.

So if you have your main home bookmark in the category you have set as the default category, that category becomes both the default and the home-linked category.