+++ Options Screen Help +++
The Options Screen allows you to set and
modify many of Lynx's features. The following
options may be set.
Editor - If non-empty it defines the editor to spawn
when editing a local file or sending mail.
Any valid text editor may be entered here.
DISPLAY variable - If non-empty it specifies your X terminal
display address.
Bookmark file - If non-empty it specifies the name of your
'Bookmark file'. If the filename is not
absolute, then the path begins from your
home directory.
Personal Mail - You may set your mail address here so that
Address when mailing messages to other people or
mailing files to yourself, your email address
can be automatically filled in. You email
address will also be sent to HTTP servers in
a from: field.
Searching type - If set to 'case sensitive', user searches
invoked by the '/' command will be case
sensitive substring searches. The
default is 'Case Insensitive' substring
searches
Display Character - This option allows you to set up the default
set character set for your specific terminal.
The character set provides a mapping of 8-bit
ISO Latin character entities and/or Asian (CJK)
characters into viewable characters and should
be set in relation to your terminal's character
set if you will be viewing such characters with
Lynx. You must have the selected character set
installed on your terminal.
Raw 8-bit or CJK - Toggles whether 8-bit characters are assumed to
mode correspond with the selected character set and
therefore are processed without translation via
the ISO Latin 1 conversion tables. Should be
ON by default when the selected character set is
ISO Latin 1, or is one of the Asian (CJK) sets
and the 8-bit characters are Kanji multibyes.
Should be OFF for the other character sets, but
can be turned ON when there's a match, e.g., the
document's charset is ISO-8859-2 and ISO Latin 2
has been selected. Should be OFF when an Asian
(CJK) set is selected but the document is
ISO-8850-1. The setting also can be toggled via
the RAW_TOGGLE command, normally mapped to '@',
and at startup via the -raw switch.
Preferred Document - The language you prefer if multi-language files are
Language available from servers. Use MIME abbreviations,
e.g., en for English, fr for French, etc. Can be
a comma-separated list in descending order of
preferences.
Preferred Document - The character set you prefer if sets in addition
Charset to ISO-8859-1 and US-ASCII are available from
servers. Use MIME notation (e.g., ISO-8859-2)
and do not include ISO-8859-1 or US-ASCII, since
those values are always assumed by default. Can
be a comma-separated list in descending order of
preferences.
VI keys - If set to 'ON' then the lowercase h,j,k, and l,
keys will be mapped to left, down, up, right,
respectively.
Emacs keys - If set to 'ON' then the CTRL-P, CTRL-N, CTRL-F,
CTRL-B, keys will be mapped to up, down, right,
and left, respectively.
Keypad mode - This option gives the choice between navigating
with the keypad (as arrows; see Lynx Navigation)
and having every link numbered (numbered links)
so that the links may be selected by numbers
instead of moving to them with the arrow keys.
Line edit style - This option allows you to set alternate key
bindings for the built-in line editor, if your
system administrator has installed alternates.
Otherwise, Lynx uses the Default Binding.
List directory - Applies to Directory Editing. Files and
style directories can be presented in the following
ways:
Mixed style
Files and directories are listed together in
alphabetical order.
Directories first
Files and directories are separated into two
alphabetical lists. Directories are listed
first.
Files first
Files and directories are separated into two
alphabetical lists. Files are listed first.
Show dot files - If display/creation of hidden (dot)
files/directories is enabled, you can turn
the feature on or off via this setting.
User Mode - Beginner
Shows two extra lines of help at the bottom
of the screen
Intermediate (normal mode)
The "normal" statusline messages appear.
Advanced
The URL is shown on the statusline.
User Agent - The header string which Lynx sends to servers
to indicate the User-Agent. It cannot be changed.
Users often request ability to change it so that
they can indicate other agents to servers which
return different documents based on the User-Agent.
Netscape Communications Corp. has indicated that it
considers false transmissions of "Mozilla" as the
User-Agent to be a copyright infringement, which
will be prosecuted.
Local execution - If set to 'ON', Lynx will locally execute
links commands contained inside of links. This
can be HIGHLY DANGEROUS so it is recommended
that they remain 'ALWAYS OFF' unless
otherwise set by your system administrator.
This option may not be available on most
versions of Lynx.