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Re: [Lynx-dev] README.options
From: |
Bela Lubkin |
Subject: |
Re: [Lynx-dev] README.options |
Date: |
Wed, 27 Apr 2005 04:53:15 -0700 |
Stef Caunter wrote:
> Press "O" at any time in your lynx session to access this utility page.
> This is one of several custom "system" URLs that cause lynx to self-configure.
>
> Please note:
> Ensure and confirm that your [O]ptions session is flushed to disk, by
> selecting:
>
> Save options to disk: [_] before selecting "Accept Changes".
>
> This freshens your .lynxrc file, which is your default "personal"
> configuration
> for the lynx browser. Otherwise you will only affect settings for your
> individual session; they aren't remembered next time you use lynx, (since you
> actually did not tell lynx to remember them).
>
> This disk write to .lynxrc is not default behaviour for [O]ptions
> configurations. The lynx browser tends to tread lightly at first. Note that
> you must first have permission on your system to create, write to and read
> from a .lynxrc file in your home directory.
You might want to clarify one point about this. Hitting "Accept
Changes" when "Save options to disk" is enabled writes out _all_
settings, not just the ones changes in the current [O]ptions dialog.
That is, if you did:
1. [O]ptions
2. Change "User mode" to "Advanced"
3. Accept Changes
4. [O]ptions
5. Change "VI keys" to "Off"
6. Checkmark "Save options to disk"
7. Accept Changes
-- the change made in step 2 has now been written to disk. This will be
obvious to _current_ Lynx users, and may seem intuitively obvious to
most readers on this list. It is much less obvious to a new user. A
different reasonable assumption would be that "Save options to disk"
only writes out changes made during the _current_ [O]ptions session.
>Bela<
- [Lynx-dev] passwords & cookies, Philip Webb, 2005/04/22
- Re: [Lynx-dev] passwords & cookies, Thomas Dickey, 2005/04/22
- [Lynx-dev] Re: passwords & cookies, Morten Bo Johansen, 2005/04/22
- Re: [Lynx-dev] Re: passwords & cookies, Philip Webb, 2005/04/22
- [Lynx-dev] Re: passwords & cookies, Morten Bo Johansen, 2005/04/22
- Re: [Lynx-dev] Re: passwords & cookies, Philip Webb, 2005/04/22
- [Lynx-dev] README.options, Stef Caunter, 2005/04/26
- Re: [Lynx-dev] README.options,
Bela Lubkin <=
- Re: [Lynx-dev] README.options, Thorsten Glaser, 2005/04/28
- Re: [Lynx-dev] README.options, Stef Caunter, 2005/04/28
- [Lynx-dev] README.cookies, Stef Caunter, 2005/04/26
- Re: [Lynx-dev] Re: passwords & cookies, Philip Webb, 2005/04/22