Options Screen Help

# +++ 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.

         Multi-bookmarks    -  When OFF, the default bookmark file is used
                               for the 'v'iew bookmarks and 'a'dd bookmark
                               link commands.  If set to STANDARD, a menu
                               of available bookmarks always is 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.  If set to
                               ADVANCED, you instead are 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.

         Bookmark file      -  If non-empty and multi-bookmarks is OFF, it
                               specifies your default 'Bookmark file'.
                               If multi-bookmarks is STANDARD or ADVANCED,
                               entering 'B' will invoke a menu in which you
                               can specify the filepaths and descriptions
                               of up to 26 bookmark files.  The filepaths
                               must be from your home directory, and begin
                               with dot-slash (./) if subdirectories are
                               included (e.g, ./BM/lynx_bookmarks.html).
                               Lynx will create bookmark files when you
                               first 'a'dd a link, but any subdirectories
                               in the filepath must already exist.

         FTP sort criteria  -  This option allows you to specify how files
                               will be sorted within FTP listings.  The
                               current options include "By Filename",
                               "By Size", "By Type", and "By Date".

         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.  Your 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

         Preferred Document -  The language you prefer if multi-language files
         Language              are available from servers.  Use RFC 1766 tags,
                               e.g., en for English, fr for French, etc.  Can be
                               a comma-separated list, which may be interpreted
    			   by servers as descending order of preferences.
    			   You can also make your order of preference explicit
    			   by using q factors as defined by the HTTP protocol,
    			   for servers which understand it, for example:
    				da, en-gb;q=0.8, en;q=0.7

         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, which may be interpreted
    			   by servers as descending order of preferences.
    			   You can also make your order of preference explicit
    			   by using q factors as defined by the HTTP protocol,
    			   for servers which understand it, for example:
    				iso-8859-5, unicode-1-1;q=0.8

         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) or
                               Unicode characters into viewable characters and
                               should be set according 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 chartrans conversion tables.  Should be ON
                               by default when the selected character set is one
                               of the Asian (CJK) sets and the 8-bit characters
                               are Kanji multibytes.  Should be OFF for the other
                               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 included in
                               a reply header from an HTTP server to indicate what
                               it is) but you know by some means that you have the
                               matching display character set selected.  Should be
                               OFF when an Asian (CJK) set is selected but the
                               document is ISO-8859-1.  The setting also can be
                               toggled via the RAW_TOGGLE command, normally mapped
                               to '@', and at startup via the -raw switch.

         Show color        -   This option will be present if color support is
                               available.  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.  If set to OFF or NEVER, color mode
                               will be turned off.
                               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.  If Lynx
                               is built with the slang library, 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.
                               A saved value of NEVER will cause Lynx to assume a
                               monochrome terminal at startup.  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
                               startup 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 the slang library 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 startup color mode is incorrect for your
                               terminal, set it appropriately on or off via this
                               option.

         VI keys           -   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.  The
                               uppercase H, J, K, and L keys remain mapped to
                               their configured bindings (normally HELP, JUMP,
                               KEYMAP, and LIST, respectively).

         Emacs keys        -   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).

         Show dot files    -   If display/creation of hidden (dot)
                               files/directories is enabled, you can turn
                               the feature on or off via this setting.

         Popups for select -   Lynx normally uses a popup window for the
         fields                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 popup 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.

         Show cursor for   -   Lynx normally hides the cursor by positioning it
         current link or       to the right and if possible the very bottom of
         option                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 also is
                               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 screen display.

         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.

         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 is displayed here.
                               Changes may be disallowed via the -restrictions
                               switch.  Otherwise, the header can be changed
                               temporarily to a string such as L_y_n_x/2.7.2 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 the Options Menu.  Changes
                               of the header are not saved in the RC file.
                               NOTE that Netscape Communications Corp. has
                               claimed that false transmissions of "Mozilla" as
                               the User-Agent are a copyright infringement, which
                               will be prosecuted.  DO NOT misrepresent Lynx as
                               Mozilla.  The Options Menu issues a warning about
                               possible copyright infringement whenever the header
                               is changed to one which does not include "Lynx" or
                               "lynx".

         Local execution   -   If set to 'ALWAYS ON', Lynx will locally execute
         links                 commands contained inside of any links.  This
                               can be HIGHLY DANGEROUS so it is recommended
                               that they remain 'ALWAYS OFF' or 'FOR LOCAL
                               FILES ONLY' unless otherwise set by your system
                               administrator.  This option may not be available
                               on most versions of Lynx.