Re: lynx-dev suggested addition to lynx.cfg

[Leonid Pauzner]

13-Jul-99 01:06 Klaus Weide wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Henry Nelson wrote:

> It should be at the end so that users' settings can override the
> default settings.  I assume that would normally be the desired behavior.
> ("normally" = no restrictions imposed on users, can change anything -
> when something else is needed, the INCLUDE hopefully won't get
> uncommented.)

>> Having duplicate defines widely spaced in the lynx.cfg file
>> makes it just that more complex to extract unique strings from lynx.cfg.

> Ok, there should also be a pointer near the beginning, where INCLUDE
> is explained, that points to the end.  I suggest adding after

> # Then in ~/lynx.cfg:
> #
> #   INCLUDE:/usr/local/lib/lynx.cfg
> #           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ or whatever is appropriate on your system
> # and now your own tweaks.

> # This can also be used the other way around: Instead of a user-specified
> # file including the global configuration file, the global file can
> # include user-specific files.  See the end of this file.

> Is this better?
Yes.

>   Klaus