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<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 insensitive) 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 “ON” 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 “ON” 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 “Raw
8-bit or CJK Mode” 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
“assumed document character set” for best choice).
Should be OFF when an Asian (CJK) set is selected but the
document is ISO-8859-1 or another “assumed document
character set”. The setting can also be toggled via the
RAW_TOGGLE command, normally mapped to “@”, 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 “.lynxrc” 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 “.lynxrc” 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
“option”_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
<li>..</li> inside <a
HREF="some.url">..</a>. 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 (“\” 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 “*” &
“[” keys as follows:</p>
<pre>
<em>ignore</em> all images which lack an ALT= text string,
<em>show labels</em>, e.g. [INLINE] — see “Verbose Images” below — ,
<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> &
<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]
— for images without ALT — with filenames: this can
be helpful by revealing which images are important & 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> &
<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 “from:” 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 “q factors” 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., “en” English,
“fr” French. Can be a comma-separated list, and you
can use “q factors” (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
“Lynx” 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 “Mozilla” 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
“By Filename”, “By Size”,
“By Type”, “By Date”.</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
“.”</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 “ALWAYS ON”, Lynx will locally execute
commands contained inside any links. This can be <strong>HIGHLY
DANGEROUS</strong>, so it is recommended that they remain
“ALWAYS OFF” or “FOR LOCAL FILES
ONLY”.</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
“v”iew-bookmarks and “a”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 “=” 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 “<a href="bookmark_help.html">Bookmark
file</a>”.</li>
<li>If multi-bookmarks is STANDARD or ADVANCED, entering
“B” 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
“./” if subdirectories are included (e.g.,
“./BM/lynx_bookmarks.html”).</p>
<p>Lynx will create bookmark files when you first
“a”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>
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