Re: Handling sites that don't send content-type (was: lynx word bleeding?)

Bela Lubkin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.lynx.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
It's easy to use your own lynx.cfg while still keeping up with system
changes.  This is documented near the top of the standard lynx.cfg; but
with an important omission.

lynx.cfg has an 'include' facility.  So all you need to do is write:

    INCLUDE:/etc/lynx-cur/lynx.cfg
    STARTFILE:https://abc.def

in your own file, let's say ~/lynx/lynx.cfg; and conspire for Lynx to
invoke that at startup time.  Which you can do with either:

    alias lynx=/usr/bin/lynx -cfg ~/lynx/lynx.cfg

or:

    export LYNX_CFG=~/lynx/lynx.cfg

(using your shell's form of alias / function, or environment export...)

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The important omission (at least in 2.9.0dev.7) is that it doesn't
discuss ordering.  These have different meanings:

(1)

    STARTFILE:https://abc.def
    INCLUDE:/etc/lynx-cur/lynx.cfg

(2)

    INCLUDE:/etc/lynx-cur/lynx.cfg
    STARTFILE:https://abc.def

In #1, the system setting will override STARTFILE; you'll only see
abc.def if the system didn't specify STARTFILE.  In #2, your setting
always overrides.  Either could be what you mean, you just have to know
what it is that you mean to mean...

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Which means, in *most* cases, the user will want something like:

    INCLUDE:/path/to/system/lynx.cfg
    STUFF:that the user wants to override

(Thomas, can you add a few words to clarify include ordering, in default
lynx.cfg?)

>Bela<

PS: there's also a LYNX_CFG_PATH environment variable.  A system admin
could do something like:

- add ~/lynx/lynx.cfg to standard files created at account creation time

- it contains 'INCLUDE:/correct/path/to/that/systems/lynx.cfg' followed
  by an 'overrides go here' comment

- set a systemwide LYNX_CFG_PATH environment variable which points to
  the user path first; or compile it directly into the Lynx binary

Then any user can do this by just editing one pre-existing file.

OR the system lynx.cfg could have an 'INCLUDE:~/lynx/lynx.cfg' at its
end (and the user better not have the same); except -- if that file
doesn't exist, it errors out.  Needs an 'INCLUDE_OPTIONAL:file'
directive...
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