Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Lynx Keystrokes

[Larry W. Virden, x2487]

>Will Mengarini worte concerning mods to allow $LYNX_CFG to take a colon
>seperated list thus allowing multiple lynx.cfg files. Would this mean that 
>I could put the latest greatest lynx.cfg with all of its new stuff (just 
>take it "straight out of the box" as it were, and install it unmodified,
>then have another lynx.cfg (stripped of all but stuff I want modified like
>site specific stuff [help pages, doman, that stuff]) and have it override
>the defaults in the previously read (latest greatest) so that I don't have

The one thing of concern would be security.  If a site locked down
the permission to perform certain operations, lynx should take the most
restrictive of the settings it encounters as it passed thru the list
of lynx.cfg; otherwise a hacker could open up her/his account.
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