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+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
+
+<html>
+<head>
+ <meta name="generator" content=
+ "HTML Tidy for Linux (vers 25 March 2009), see www.w3.org">
+
+ <title>Form-based Options Menu : Help</title>
+ <link rev="made" href="mailto:lynx-dev@nongnu.org">
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content=
+ "text/html; charset=us-ascii">
+ <meta name="description" content=
+ "Lynx's options menu allows you to set and modify many features. Some features persist only during the current session unless specially enabled in lynx.cfg">
+ </head>
+
+<body>
+ <h2><a name="overview" id="overview">Options Menu</a></h2>
+
+ <p>The <em>Options Menu</em> allows you to set and modify many
+ Lynx features.<br>
+ <strong>Lynx</strong>'s <em>Options Menu</em> is grouped visually
+ (by skipping a line) into sections. This description follows the
+ same arrangement. Some options appear on the screen only if they
+ have been compiled in or chosen in
+ <code><strong>lynx.cfg</strong></code>.</p>
+
+ <div class="nav">
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="#overview">Options Menu</a></li>
+
+ <li>
+ <a href="#GP">General Preferences</a>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="#UM">User Mode</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="#ED">Editor</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="#ST">Type of Search</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <a href="#SP">Security and Privacy</a>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="#CK">Cookies</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="#IK">Invalid-Cookie Prompting</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="#SK">SSL Prompting</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <a href="#KI">Keyboard Input</a>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="#KM">Keypad mode</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="#EM">Emacs keys</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="#VI">VI keys</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="#LE">Line edit style</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <a href="#DP">Display and Character Set</a>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="#LC">Use locale-based character set</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="#H5">Use HTML5 charset replacements</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="#DC">Display Character set</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="#AD">Assumed document character set</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="#JK">Raw 8-bit or CJK mode</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="#DV">X DISPLAY variable</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <a href="#AP">Document Appearance</a>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="#SC">Show color</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="#CS">Color style</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="#C0">Default colors</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="#CL">Show cursor for current link or
+ option</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="#UK">Underline links</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="#SS">Show scrollbar</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="#PU">Pop-ups for select fields</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="#tagsoup">HTML error recovery</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="#BH">Bad HTML messages</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="#SI">Show Images</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="#VB">Verbose Images</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <a href="#HP">Headers Transferred to Remote Servers</a>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="#PM">Personal mail address</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="#PN">Personal name for mail</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="#PW">Password for anonymous ftp</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="#PT">Preferred media type</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="#PE">Preferred encoding</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="#PC">Preferred Document Charset</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="#PL">Preferred Document Language</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="#SA">Send User-Agent header</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="#UA">User Agent</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <a href="#LP">Listing and Accessing Files</a>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="#PF">Use Passive FTP</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="#FT">FTP sort criteria</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="#LD">Local directory sort criteria</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="#LO">Local directory sort order</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="#DF">Show dot files</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="#PZ">Pause when showing message</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="#LL">Execution links</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="#TX">Show transfer rate</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>Special Files and Screens
+
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="#MB">Multi-bookmarks</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="#BF">Bookmark file</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="#AZ">Auto Session</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="#SZ">Session file</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="#VP">Visited Pages</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </div>
+
+ <h2><a name="GP" id="GP">General Preferences</a></h2>
+
+ <h3><a name="UM" id="UM">User Mode</a></h3>
+
+ <dl>
+ <dt><em>Novice</em>: Shows 2 extra lines of help at the bottom
+ of the screen for beginners.</dt>
+
+ <dt><em>Intermediate (normal)</em>: Normal status-line messages
+ appear.</dt>
+
+ <dt><em>Advanced</em>: The URL is shown on the status
+ line.</dt>
+ </dl>
+
+ <h3><a name="ED" id="ED">Editor</a></h3>
+
+ <p>This is the editor to be invoked when editing browsable files,
+ sending mail or comments, or filling form's textarea (multiline
+ input field). The full pathname of the editor command should be
+ specified when possible. It is assumed the text editor supports
+ the same character set you have for "display character set" in
+ Lynx.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="ST" id="ST">Type of Search</a></h3>
+
+ <p>This allows you to tell Lynx whether to search the current
+ document ignoring case (case insensistive) or not.</p>
+
+ <h2><a name="SP" id="SP">Security and Privacy</a></h2>
+
+ <h3><a name="CK" id="CK">Cookies</a></h3>
+
+ <p>This can be set to accept or reject all cookies or to ask each
+ time. See the Users Guide for details of <a href=
+ "../Lynx_users_guide.html#Cookies">cookie usage</a>.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="IK" id="IK">Invalid-Cookie Prompting</a></h3>
+
+ <p>This allows you to tell how to handle invalid cookies:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li><em>prompt normally</em> to prompt for each cookie</li>
+
+ <li><em>force yes-response</em> to reply "yes" to each
+ prompt</li>
+
+ <li><em>force no-response</em> to reply "no" to each
+ prompt.</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <h3><a name="SK" id="SK">SSL Prompting</a></h3>
+
+ <p>This allows you to tell how to handle errors detected in SSL
+ connections:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li><em>prompt normally</em> to prompt for each cookie</li>
+
+ <li><em>force yes-response</em> to reply "yes" to each
+ prompt</li>
+
+ <li><em>force no-response</em> to reply "no" to each
+ prompt.</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <h2><a name="KI" id="KI">Keyboard Input</a></h2>
+
+ <h3><a name="KM" id="KM">Keypad mode</a></h3>
+
+ <p>This 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. You can also
+ number form fields.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="EM" id="EM">Emacs keys</a></h3>
+
+ <p>If set to &ldquo;ON&rdquo; then the CTRL-P, CTRL-N, CTRL-F and
+ CTRL-B keys will be mapped to up-arrow, down-arrow, right-arrow
+ and left-arrow respectively. Otherwise, they remain mapped to
+ their configured bindings (normally UP_TWO lines, DOWN_TWO lines,
+ NEXT_PAGE and PREV_PAGE respectively).</p>
+
+ <p>Note: setting emacs keys does not affect the line-editor
+ bindings.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="VI" id="VI">VI keys</a></h3>
+
+ <p>If set to &ldquo;ON&rdquo; then the lowercase h, j, k and l
+ keys will be mapped to left-arrow, down-arrow, up-arrow and
+ right-arrow respectively.</p>
+
+ <p>The uppercase H, J, K, and L keys remain mapped to their
+ configured bindings (normally HELP, JUMP, KEYMAP and LIST,
+ respectively).</p>
+
+ <p>Note: setting vi keys does not affect the line-editor
+ bindings.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="LE" id="LE">Line edit style</a></h3>
+
+ <p>This allows you to set alternate key bindings for the built-in
+ line editor, if <a href="alt_edit_help.html">Alternate
+ Bindings</a> have been installed. Otherwise, Lynx uses the
+ <a href="edit_help.html">Default Binding</a>.</p>
+
+ <h2><a name="DP" id="DP">Display and Character Set</a></h2>
+
+ <h3><a name="LC" id="LC">Use locale-based character set</a></h3>
+
+ <p>This option allows you to request lynx to obtain a MIME name
+ from the operating system which corresponds to your locale
+ setting. If successful, it overrides the normal setting of the
+ display character set.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="H5" id="H5">Use HTML5 charset replacements</a></h3>
+
+ <p>This option allows lynx to treat pages with ISO-8859-1
+ (Latin1) or ASCII encoding as if they were Windows 1252. That
+ allows a few punctuation characters to be shown.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="DC" id="DC">Display Character set</a></h3>
+
+ <p>This allows you to set up the default character set for your
+ specific terminal. The display character set provides a mapping
+ from the character encodings of viewed documents and from HTML
+ entities into viewable characters. It should be set according to
+ your terminal's character set so that characters other than 7-bit
+ ASCII can be displayed correctly, using approximations if
+ necessary, <a href="test_display.html">try the test here</a>.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="AD" id="AD">Assumed document character set</a></h3>
+
+ <p>This changes the handling of documents which do not explicitly
+ specify a charset. Normally Lynx assumes that 8-bit characters in
+ those documents are encoded according to iso-8859-1 (the official
+ default for HTTP protocol). Unfortunately, many non-English web
+ pages forget to include proper charset info; this option helps
+ you browse those broken pages if you know somehow what the
+ charset is. When the value given here or by an -assume_charset
+ command-line flag is in effect, Lynx will treat documents as if
+ they were encoded accordingly. Option is active when &ldquo;Raw
+ 8-bit or CJK Mode&rdquo; is OFF.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="JK" id="JK">Raw 8-bit or CJK mode</a></h3>
+
+ <p>This is set automatically, but can be toggled manually in
+ certain cases: it toggles whether 8-bit characters are assumed to
+ correspond with the display character set and therefore are
+ processed without translation via the chartrans conversion
+ tables. ON by default when the display character set is one of
+ the Asian (CJK) sets and the 8-bit characters are Kanji
+ multibytes. OFF for the other display character sets, but can be
+ turned ON when the document's charset is unknown (e.g., is not
+ ISO-8859-1 and no charset parameter was specified in a reply
+ header from an HTTP server to indicate what it is), but you have
+ no better idea than viewing it as from display character set (see
+ &ldquo;assumed document character set&rdquo; for best choice).
+ Should be OFF when an Asian (CJK) set is selected but the
+ document is ISO-8859-1 or another &ldquo;assumed document
+ character set&rdquo;. The setting can also be toggled via the
+ RAW_TOGGLE command, normally mapped to &ldquo;@&rdquo;, and at
+ startup via the -raw switch.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="DV" id="DV">X DISPLAY variable</a></h3>
+
+ <p>This option is only relevant to X Window users. It specifies
+ the DISPLAY (Unix) or DECW$DISPLAY (VMS) variable. It is picked
+ up automatically from the environment if it has been previously
+ set.</p>
+
+ <h2><a name="AP" id="AP">Document Appearance</a></h2>
+
+ <h3><a name="SC" id="SC">Show color</a></h3>
+
+ <p>This will be present if color support is available.</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>If set to ON or ALWAYS, color mode will be forced on if
+ possible. If (n)curses color support is available but cannot be
+ used for the current terminal type, selecting ON is rejected
+ with a message.</li>
+
+ <li>If set to OFF or NEVER, color mode will be turned off.</li>
+
+ <li>ALWAYS and NEVER are not offered in anonymous accounts. If
+ saved to a &ldquo;.lynxrc&rdquo; file in non-anonymous
+ accounts, ALWAYS will cause Lynx to set color mode on at
+ startup if supported.</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>If Lynx is built with slang, this is equivalent to having
+ included the -color command line switch or having the COLORTERM
+ environment variable set. If color support is provided by curses
+ or ncurses, this is equivalent to the default behavior of using
+ color when the terminal type supports it. If (n)curses color
+ support is available but cannot be used for the current terminal
+ type, the preference can still be saved but will have no
+ effect.</p>
+
+ <p>A saved value of NEVER will cause Lynx to assume a monochrome
+ terminal at start-up. It is similar to the -nocolor switch, but
+ (when the slang library is used) can be overridden with the
+ -color switch. If the setting is OFF or ON when the current
+ options are saved to a &ldquo;.lynxrc&rdquo; file, the default
+ start-up behavior is retained, such that color mode will be
+ turned on at startup only if the terminal info indicates that you
+ have a color-capable terminal, or (when slang is used) if forced
+ on via the -color switch or COLORTERM variable. This default
+ behavior always is used in anonymous accounts, or if the
+ &ldquo;option&rdquo;_save restriction is set explicitly. If for
+ any reason the start-up color mode is incorrect for your
+ terminal, set it appropriately on or off via this option.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="CS" id="CS">Color style</a></h3>
+
+ <p>At startup, Lynx identifies the available color-style
+ configuration files in the same directory as its default ".lss"
+ file. At runtime, you can switch between these files using this
+ options-menu feature.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="C0" id="C0">Default colors</a></h3>
+
+ <p>Depending on the default foreground and background colors
+ which your terminal uses, some color-styles would look better if
+ Lynx did not use those in combination with the style for the
+ background. Use this option to enable/disable the default-color
+ feature.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="CL" id="CL">Show cursor for current link or
+ option</a></h3>
+
+ <p>Lynx normally hides the cursor by positioning it to the right
+ and if possible the very bottom of the screen, so that the
+ current link or OPTION is indicated solely by its highlighting or
+ color. If show cursor is set to ON, the cursor will be positioned
+ at the left of the current link or OPTION. This is helpful when
+ Lynx is being used with a speech or braille interface. It is also
+ useful for sighted users when the terminal cannot distinguish the
+ character attributes used to distinguish the current link or
+ OPTION from the others in the display.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="UK" id="UK">Underline links</a></h3>
+
+ <p>Use underline-attribute rather than bold for links.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="SS" id="SS">Show scrollbar</a></h3>
+
+ <p>This allows you to enable (show) or disable (hide) the
+ scrollbar on the right-margin of the display. This feature is
+ available with ncurses or slang libraries.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="PU" id="PU">Pop-ups for select fields</a></h3>
+
+ <p>Lynx normally uses a pop-up window for the OPTIONs in form
+ SELECT fields when the field does not have the MULTIPLE attribute
+ specified, and thus only one OPTION can be selected. The use of
+ pop-up windows can be disabled by changing this setting to OFF,
+ in which case the OPTIONs will be rendered as a list of radio
+ buttons. Note that if the SELECT field does have the MULTIPLE
+ attribute specified, the OPTIONs always are rendered as a list of
+ checkboxes.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="tagsoup" id="tagsoup">HTML error recovery</a></h3>
+
+ <p>Lynx often has to deal with invalid HTML markup. It always
+ tries to recover from errors, but there is no universally correct
+ way for doing this. As a result, there are two parsing modes:
+ "<dfn>SortaSGML</dfn>" attempts to enforce valid nesting of most
+ tags at an earlier stage of processing, while
+ "<dfn>TagSoup</dfn>" relies more on the HTML rendering stage to
+ mimic the behavior of some other browsers. You can also switch
+ between these modes with the CTRL-V key, and the default can be
+ changed in lynx.cfg or with the -tagsoup command line switch.</p>
+
+ <p>The "SortaSGML" mode will often appear to be more strict, and
+ makes some errors apparent that are otherwise unnoticeable. One
+ particular difference is the handling of block elements or
+ &lt;li&gt;..&lt;/li&gt; inside &lt;a
+ HREF="some.url"&gt;..&lt;/a&gt;. Invalid nesting like this may
+ turn anchors into hidden links which cannot be easily followed,
+ this is avoided in "TagSoup" mode. See the <a href=
+ "follow_help.html">help on following links by number</a> for more
+ information on hidden links. Often pages may be more readable in
+ "TagSoup" mode, but sometimes the opposite is true. Most
+ documents with valid HTML, and documents with only minor errors,
+ should be rendered the same way in both modes.</p>
+
+ <p>If you are curious about what goes on behind the scenes, but
+ find that the information from the -trace switch is just too
+ much, Lynx can be started with the -preparsed switch; going into
+ SOURCE mode (&ldquo;\&rdquo; key) and toggling the parsing mode
+ (with CTRL-V) should then show some of the differences.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="BH" id="BH">Bad HTML messages</a></h3>
+
+ <p>Suppress or redirect Lynx's messages about "Bad HTML":</p>
+
+ <dl>
+ <dt>Ignore</dt>
+
+ <dd>do not warn; no details are written to the trace-file.</dd>
+
+ <dt>Add to trace-file</dt>
+
+ <dd>add the detailed warning message to the trace-file.</dd>
+
+ <dt>Add to LYNXMESSAGES</dt>
+
+ <dd>add the detailed warning message to the message page at
+ "LYNXMESSAGES:".</dd>
+
+ <dt>Warn, point to trace-file</dt>
+
+ <dd>show a warning message on the status line; the complete
+ message is written to the trace-file.</dd>
+ </dl>
+
+ <h3><a name="SI" id="SI">Show Images</a></h3>
+
+ <p>This option combines the effects of the &ldquo;*&rdquo; &amp;
+ &ldquo;[&rdquo; keys as follows:</p>
+ <pre>
+ <em>ignore</em> all images which lack an ALT= text string,
+ <em>show labels</em>, e.g. [INLINE] &mdash; see &ldquo;Verbose Images&rdquo; below &mdash; ,
+ <em>use links</em> for every image, enabling downloading.
+</pre>
+
+ <p>This option setting cannot be saved between sessions. See
+ <a href="../Lynx_users_guide.html#Images">Users Guide</a> &amp;
+ <em>lynx.cfg</em> for more details.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="VB" id="VB">Verbose Images</a></h3>
+
+ <p>This allows you to replace [LINK], [INLINE] and [IMAGE]
+ &mdash; for images without ALT &mdash; with filenames: this can
+ be helpful by revealing which images are important &amp; which
+ are merely decoration, e.g. <em>button.gif</em>,
+ <em>line.gif</em>. See <a href=
+ "../Lynx_users_guide.html#Images">Users Guide</a> &amp;
+ <em>lynx.cfg</em> for more details.</p>
+
+ <h2><a name="HP" id="HP">Headers Transferred to Remote
+ Servers</a></h2>
+
+ <h3><a name="PM" id="PM">Personal Mail Address</a></h3>
+
+ <p>You may set your mail address here so that when mailing
+ messages to other people or mailing files to yourself, your email
+ address can be automatically filled in. Your email address will
+ also be sent to HTTP servers in a &ldquo;from:&rdquo; field.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="PN" id="PN">Personal mail name</a></h3>
+
+ <p>This mail name will be included as the "X-Personal_Name" field
+ in any mail or comments that you send if that header has not been
+ disabled via the NO_ANONYMOUS_EMAIL definition in
+ <em>lynx.cfg</em>.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="PW" id="PW">Password for anonymous ftp</a></h3>
+
+ <p>If this is blank, Lynx will use your personal mail address as
+ the anonymous ftp password. Though that is the convention, some
+ users prefer to use some other string which provides less
+ information. If the given value lacks a "@", Lynx also will use
+ your computer's hostname as part of the password. If both this
+ field and the personal mail address are blank, Lynx will use your
+ $USER environment variable, or "WWWuser" if even the environment
+ variable is unset.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="PT" id="PT">Preferred media type</a></h3>
+
+ <p>When doing a GET, lynx lists the MIME types which it knows how
+ to present (the "Accept:" string). Depending on your system
+ configuration, the mime.types or other data given by the
+ GLOBAL_EXTENSION_MAP may include many entries that lynx really
+ does not handle. Use this option to select one of the built-in
+ subsets of the MIME types that lynx could list in the Accept.</p>
+
+ <dl>
+ <dt>Accept lynx's internal types</dt>
+
+ <dd>list only the types that are compiled into lynx.</dd>
+
+ <dt>Also accept lynx.cfg's types</dt>
+
+ <dd>lists types defined in lynx.cfg, e.g., the VIEWER and Cern
+ RULE or RULESFILE settings.</dd>
+
+ <dt>Also accept user's types</dt>
+
+ <dd>lists types from the PERSONAL_EXTENSION_MAP setting in
+ lynx.cfg</dd>
+
+ <dt>Also accept system's types</dt>
+
+ <dd>lists types from the GLOBAL_EXTENSION_MAP setting in
+ lynx.cfg</dd>
+
+ <dt>Accept all types</dt>
+
+ <dd>adds the types that are in lynx's built-in tables for
+ external programs that may be used to present a document.</dd>
+ </dl>
+
+ <h3><a name="PE" id="PE">Preferred encoding</a></h3>
+
+ <p>When doing a GET, lynx tells what types of compressed data it
+ can decompress (the "Accept-Encoding:" string). This is
+ determined by compiled-in support for decompression or external
+ decompression programs. Use this option to select none, one or
+ all of the supported decompression types.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="PC" id="PC">Preferred Document Charset</a></h3>
+
+ <p>The character set you prefer if sets in addition 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, which may be interpreted by servers as
+ descending order of preferences; you can make your order of
+ preference explicit by using &ldquo;q factors&rdquo; as defined
+ by the HTTP protocol, for servers which understand it: e.g.,
+ <kbd>iso-8859-5, utf-8;q=0.8</kbd>.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="PL" id="PL">Preferred Document Language</a></h3>
+
+ <p>The language you prefer if multi-language files are available
+ from servers. Use RFC 1766 tags, e.g., &ldquo;en&rdquo; English,
+ &ldquo;fr&rdquo; French. Can be a comma-separated list, and you
+ can use &ldquo;q factors&rdquo; (see previous help item): e.g.,
+ <kbd>da, en-gb;q=0.8, en;q=0.7</kbd> .</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="SA" id="SA">Send User-Agent header</a></h3>
+
+ <p>This controls whether the user-agent string will be sent.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="UA" id="UA">User Agent header</a></h3>
+
+ <p>The header string which Lynx sends to servers to indicate the
+ User-Agent is displayed here. Changes may be disallowed via the
+ -restrictions switch. Otherwise, the header can be changed
+ temporarily to e.g., L_y_n_x/2.8.3 for access to sites which
+ discriminate against Lynx based on checks for the presence of
+ &ldquo;Lynx&rdquo; in the header. If changed during a Lynx
+ session, the default User-Agent header can be restored by
+ deleting the modified string in the Options Menu. Whenever the
+ User-Agent header is changed, the current document is reloaded,
+ with the no-cache flags set, on exit from Options Menu. Changes
+ of the header are not saved in the .lynxrc file.</p>
+
+ <p>Caveat: Netscape Communications Corp. (for example) claimed
+ that false transmissions of &ldquo;Mozilla&rdquo; as the
+ User-Agent are a copyright infringement, which would be
+ prosecuted. The <em>Options Menu</em> issues a warning about
+ possible copyright infringement whenever the header is changed to
+ one which does not include <strong>Lynx</strong> or
+ <strong>lynx</strong>.</p>
+
+ <h2><a name="LP" id="LP">Listing and Accessing Files</a></h2>
+
+ <h3><a name="PF" id="PF">Use Passive FTP</a></h3>
+
+ <p>This allows you to change whether Lynx uses passive ftp
+ connections.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="FT" id="FT">FTP sort criteria</a></h3>
+
+ <p>This allows you to specify how files will be sorted within FTP
+ listings. The current options include
+ &ldquo;By&nbsp;Filename&rdquo;, &ldquo;By&nbsp;Size&rdquo;,
+ &ldquo;By&nbsp;Type&rdquo;, &ldquo;By&nbsp;Date&rdquo;.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="LD" id="LD">List directory style</a></h3>
+
+ <p>Applies to Directory Editing. Files and directories can be
+ presented in the following ways:</p>
+
+ <dl>
+ <dt><em>Mixed style</em>: Files and directories are listed
+ together in alphabetical order.</dt>
+
+ <dt><em>Directories first</em>: Files and directories are
+ separated into 2 alphabetical lists: directories are listed
+ first.</dt>
+
+ <dt><em>Files first</em>: Files and directories are separated
+ into 2 alphabetical lists: files are listed first.</dt>
+ </dl>
+
+ <h3><a name="LO" id="LO">Local directory sort order</a></h3>
+
+ <p>Lynx also allows you to sort by the file attributes:</p>
+
+ <dl>
+ <dt>By name</dt>
+
+ <dd>by filename (the default)</dd>
+
+ <dt>By size</dt>
+
+ <dd>by file size, in descending order</dd>
+
+ <dt>By date</dt>
+
+ <dd>by file modification time, in descending order</dd>
+
+ <dt>By mode</dt>
+
+ <dd>by file protection</dd>
+
+ <dt>By type</dt>
+
+ <dd>by filename suffix, e.g., the text beginning with
+ &ldquo;.&rdquo;</dd>
+
+ <dt>By user</dt>
+
+ <dd>by file owner's user-id</dd>
+
+ <dt>By group</dt>
+
+ <dd>by file owner's group-id</dd>
+ </dl>
+
+ <h3><a name="DF" id="DF">Show dot files</a></h3>
+
+ <p>If display/creation of hidden (dot) files/directories is
+ enabled, you can turn the feature on or off via this setting.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="PZ" id="PZ">Pause when showing message</a></h3>
+
+ <p>If set to "off", this overrides the INFOSECS setting in
+ lynx.cfg, to eliminate pauses when displaying informational
+ messages, like the "-nopause" command line option.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="LL" id="LL">Execution links</a></h3>
+
+ <p>If set to &ldquo;ALWAYS ON&rdquo;, Lynx will locally execute
+ commands contained inside any links. This can be <strong>HIGHLY
+ DANGEROUS</strong>, so it is recommended that they remain
+ &ldquo;ALWAYS OFF&rdquo; or &ldquo;FOR LOCAL FILES
+ ONLY&rdquo;.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="TX" id="TX">Show transfer rate</a></h3>
+
+ <p>This allows you to select the way in which Lynx shows its
+ progress in downloading large pages. It displays its progress in
+ the status line. These are the available selections:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>Do not show rate</li>
+
+ <li>Local directory sort order</li>
+
+ <li>Show dot files</li>
+
+ <li>Execution links</li>
+
+ <li>Pause when showing message</li>
+
+ <li>Show transfer rate</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <h3><a name="MB" id="MB">Multi-bookmarks</a></h3>
+
+ <p>Manage multiple bookmark files:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>When OFF, the default bookmark file is used for the
+ &ldquo;v&rdquo;iew-bookmarks and &ldquo;a&rdquo;dd-bookmark
+ link commands.</li>
+
+ <li>If set to STANDARD, a menu of available bookmarks is always
+ invoked when you seek to view a bookmark file or add a link,
+ and you select the bookmark file by its letter token in that
+ menu.</li>
+
+ <li>If set to ADVANCED, you are instead prompted for the letter
+ of the desired bookmark file, but can enter &ldquo;=&rdquo; to
+ invoke the STANDARD selection menu, or RETURN for the default
+ bookmark file.</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <h3><a name="BF" id="BF">Bookmark file</a></h3>
+
+ <p>Manage the default bookmark file:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>If non-empty and multi-bookmarks is OFF, it specifies your
+ default &ldquo;<a href="bookmark_help.html">Bookmark
+ file</a>&rdquo;.</li>
+
+ <li>If multi-bookmarks is STANDARD or ADVANCED, entering
+ &ldquo;B&rdquo; will invoke a menu in which you can specify
+ filepaths and descriptions of up to 26 bookmark files.</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>The filepaths must be from your home directory and begin with
+ &ldquo;./&rdquo; if subdirectories are included (e.g.,
+ &ldquo;./BM/lynx_bookmarks.html&rdquo;).</p>
+
+ <p>Lynx will create bookmark files when you first
+ &ldquo;a&rdquo;dd a link, but any subdirectories in the filepath
+ must already exist.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="AZ" id="AZ">Auto Session</a></h3>
+
+ <p>Lynx can save and restore useful information about your
+ browsing history. Use this setting to enable or disable the
+ feature.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="SZ" id="SZ">Session file</a></h3>
+
+ <p>Define the file name where lynx will store user sessions. This
+ setting is used only when <em>Auto Session</em> is enabled.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="VP" id="VP">Visited Pages</a></h3>
+
+ <p>This allows you to change the appearance of the <a href=
+ "visited_help.html">Visited Links Page</a> Normally it shows a
+ list, in reverse order of the pages visited. The popup menu
+ allows you these choices:</p>
+
+ <dl>
+ <dt><em>By First Visit</em>: The default appearance, shows the
+ pages based on when they were first visited. The list is shown
+ in reverse order, to make the current page (usually) at the top
+ of the list.</dt>
+
+ <dt><em>By First Visit Reversed</em> The default appearance,
+ shows the pages based on when they were first visited. The list
+ is shown in order, to make the current page (usually) at the
+ bottom of the list.</dt>
+
+ <dt><em>As Visit Tree</em> Combines the first/last visited
+ information, showing the list in order of the first visit, but
+ using the indentation level of the page immediately previous to
+ determine indentation of new entries. That gives a clue to the
+ order of visiting pages when moving around in the History or
+ Visited Pages lists.</dt>
+
+ <dt><em>By Last Visit</em> The default appearance, shows the
+ pages based on when they were last visited. The list is shown
+ in reverse order, to make the current page (usually) at the top
+ of the list.</dt>
+
+ <dt><em>By Last Visit Reversed</em> The default appearance,
+ shows the pages based on when they were last visited. The list
+ is shown in order, to make the current page (usually) at the
+ bottom of the list.</dt>
+ </dl>
+</body>
+</html>