On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Graham Lawrence <[email protected]> wrote: > Using lynx -trace I get the same message: "Alert! Unable to save options!" > Lynx.trace is attached as lt.zip > I'm using the lynx included in slackware 13.1, i.e. > 05:04:44 $ lynx -version > Lynx Version 2.8.7rel.1 (05 Jul 2009) > libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 0.9.8n, ncurses 5.7.20081102(wide) > Built on linux-gnu Feb 12 2010 19:50:52 > > I'm not trying to change any of the options marked (!). > I want to change from Novice to Advanced, and set the editor to vim, they > fail. > I've made these changes in lynx.cfg, they are ignored. > But other changes I have made in lynx.cfg have been accepted, e.g. > SSL Prompting changed to Force Yes, which is a (!) item in Options
The trace shows you have a .lynxrc file; is it writable? Are you selecting the [X] option to save to file? I don't see that happening in the trace from a quick glance. > > > > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Thomas Dickey <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Mon, 26 Sep 2011, Graham Lawrence wrote: >> >>> As user, I cannot save option changes to disk, so my changes remain in >>> effect only until the session closes. >>> As root there is no such problem. But I rarely work as root. >>> >>> I've changed ~/lynx.cfg to have the options I want, but that has no >>> effect >>> on lynx's behavior >> >> Is there a message? Does "lynx -trace" show any interesting messages? >> >> (offhand, the only related report I can recall was a while back from a >> non-cooperative Fedora user...) >> >> -- >> Thomas E. Dickey >> http://invisible-island.net >> ftp://invisible-island.net > > > _______________________________________________ > Lynx-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev > > _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
