Settings by category

These are the major categories of configuration settings in Lynx:

Appearance

Description

These settings control the appearance of Lynx's screen and the way Lynx renders some tags. FTP_FORMAT defines the display for remote files. It uses the same "%" codes as LIST_FORMAT. FTP_FORMAT:%d %-16.16t %a %K

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Auxiliary Facilities

Description

These settings control the auxiliary navigating facilities of lynx, e.g., jumpfiles, bookmarks, default URLs.

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Bibliographic Protocol (bibp scheme)

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CGI scripts

Description

These settings control Lynx's ability to execute various types of scripts.

Character sets

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Cookies

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External Programs

Description

These settings control the ability of Lynx to invoke various programs for the user. Any of the compiled-in pathnames of external programs can be overridden by specifying the corresponding xxx_PATH variable. If the variable is given as an empty string, lynx will not use the program. For a few cases, there are internal functions (such as mkdir) which can be used instead. BZIP2_PATH: CHMOD_PATH: COMPRESS_PATH: COPY_PATH: GZIP_PATH: INFLATE_PATH: INSTALL_PATH: MKDIR_PATH: MV_PATH: RLOGIN_PATH: RMDIR_PATH: RM_PATH: SETFONT_PATH: TAR_PATH: TELNET_PATH: TN3270_PATH: TOUCH_PATH: UNCOMPRESS_PATH: UNZIP_PATH: UUDECODE_PATH: ZCAT_PATH: ZIP_PATH:

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HTML Parsing

Description

These settings control the way Lynx parses invalid HTML and how it may resolve such issues.

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Interaction

Description

These settings control interaction of the user with lynx.

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Internal Behavior

Description

These settings control internal lynx behavior - the way it interacts with the operating system and Internet. Modifying these settings will not change the rendition of documents that you browse with lynx, but can change various delays and resource utilization. Some ftp servers are known to have a broken implementation of RETR. If asked to retrieve a directory, they get confused and fails subsequent commands such as CWD and LIST. Workaround: reconnect after a failed RETR, which is slow. Each BROKEN_FTP_RETR gives a string match for the reported FTP server version BROKEN_FTP_RETR:ProFTPD 1.2.5 BROKEN_FTP_RETR:spftp/

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Keyboard Input

Description

These settings control the way Lynx interprets user input.

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Mail-related

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News-groups

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Proxy

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Session support

Timeouts

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