On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Thomas Dickey <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 27 Sep 2011, Graham Lawrence wrote: > >> Thank you Halász Sándor, the problem is solved. I did not know that the >> file .lynxrc existed. I've made the changes I want in that file and lynx >> now behaves as desired. So if I ever want to make further changes, I'll >> do >> so directly in .lynxrc >> >> 2011/9/27 Halász Sándor <[email protected]> >> >>>>>>> 2011/09/26 11:37 -0700, Graham Lawrence >>>> >>> >>> 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 >>> <<<<<<<< >>> This last file is read only if somehow you point it out to Lynx, through >>> environment variable LYNX_CFG or on the command line after "-cfg". >>> Furthermore, it is intended for general, not particular use. For >>> particular >>> use, for Options, the file usually named ".lynxrc" is the one. >>> >>> If Lynx runs, though, somehwere it found a version of the configuration >>> file. On the option page there is a link to it from "View the file >>> lynx.cfg": follow the link and see the full path name. > > yes... but lynx.cfg and .lynxrc are distinct files. It seems that it > would be nice to have a link to .lynxrc to view for reference, as well > as to reinforce the sense that they're distinct.
Indeed. Also the "order of precedence" in which lynx.cfg, command line options, and .lynxrc are applied would be a good thing to point out. > > -- > 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
