Re: [Lynx-dev] other .lynxrc files

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, address@hidden wrote:

> Thanks to all the people who responded helping me the other week.
>
> Some thoughts:
>
> 1) Never occured to me to alter HOME in the environment lynx ran
>  in, but this basicly solved the main issue.
>
> 2) experimenting with using '-' to reroute where switches and such
>   were read from I realized that lynx allows mixing them up
>   with the URL in just about any order - Unix style (switches/parameters
>   first then URL/file), Dos style (URL/file first then switches/parameters)
>   etc..
>
> 3) In fact, the only thing that seemed to be order dependent was
>   that -get_data/-post_data needed to be last, preceeding any data,
>   if you are going to include them in a here document with the other
>   stuff.
>
> Maybe I'm easily amazed!  :-)
>
> Should 'HOME' be listed with the 'ENVIRONMENT' section of the
> man page, or is this too mundane?

probably that section should be expanded

> Would it be good to indicate some options after the URL
> in the man page SYNOPSIS?

I hadn't noticed it could do that, actually (it's more likely a bug
than feature).  The main issue with options processing is that lynx
does it in three stages (simple options such as -version get done in
the first stage, things like -get_data are done last).

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Thomas E. Dickey
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