On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 10:04:13PM -0400, Stef Caunter wrote: > lynx appends "saved settings" to /usr/local/lib/lynx.cfg, which is usually > good. I think this saving behaviour has been true for about a year or so; I > haven't done an install since 2.8.5rel1 so I assume this is default > behaviour; forgive the following if that is not so. > > I was toggling (I thought) FORCE_SSL_COOKIES_SECURE in its default location > in lynx.cfg to get ebay (yes it works rather well with lynx) to remember who > I am after an SSL sign on. I did not realize that I had saved settings down > *at the end of the file* untoggling my new setting until: > > a. the toggle seemed to not work and > > b. I looked for any and all instances of FORCE_SSL in the file > and found the saved lines appended. > > When such a preservation of a setting is done can some indication near the > default location for the setting be inserted into lynx.cfg such as: > > # the setting for SOME_SETTING was preserved from a lynx.cfg dated "date" > > When you go months between looking at your cfg, but you upgrade more often, > it might help to keep settings straight. > > It might be an idea to locate the saved setting by the default location with > a note about it, such as > > # this is a setting from a lynx.cfg from "date"
If you do repeated installs, keeping the comments straight might be some work: should the comments accumulate, or result in just one. > Looking at install-cfg.sh, I could submit a change if it was thought useful. > (Presume shell is preferred for such an edit). If it's not thought useful, > I'll just use perl for my own hack. Am I right that perl is avoided by the > lynx install? > There seems to be just the one cfg2html.pl script in scripts, and it doesn't run in > the install. right - that's for an optional feature that isn't really very portable, in the sense that I wouldn't want to try to make it work on non-Unix boxes, and would be very difficult to implement in awk and sed. I wouldn't want to require Perl for installing Lynx. (The latter part of what I understand you to be asking can be done in awk, for instance). We could make it a little more complicated by checking if Perl is found, and if so, doing the fancier install. -- Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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