Re: [Lynx-dev] Configurability

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Jason Spiro wrote:

> Hi,
>
> A pet peeve of mine regarding Lynx is the fact that "Using
> http://...";, "Location URL is not absolute", and "Accepting all
> cookies from..." display for a full second each. It takes me 15 sec or
> so from the time I click "Log In" at www.gmail.com until my inbox
> appears, including the invalid-cookie-prompting and
> SSL-certificate-prompting time.

"lynx -nopause" should alleviate that

> Also, I am a big fan of the TEXTBOXES_NEED_ACTIVATION option as I use
> Links and form fields are numbered navigation.
>
> I can't edit the lynx.cfg file on all the machines I use, and I
> dislike editing lynx.cfg anyway because the file is so big.

but you can set your own lynx.cfg which includes the system lynx.cfg,
e.g.,
        export LYNX_CFG=$HOME/mylynx.cfg
and in that file add your own settings.

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