FORM-BASED OPTIONS MENU : HELP
The Options Menu allows you to set and modify many Lynx features.
Note: some options appear on the screen only if they have been
compiled in or chosen in `lynx.cfg':
- General Preferences
- Keyboard Input
- Display and Character Set
- Document Appearance
- Headers Transferred to Remote Servers
- Listing and Accessing Files
- Special Files and Screens
This can be set to accept or reject all cookies or to ask each time.
See the Users Guide for details of cookie usage.
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.
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).
Note: setting emacs keys does not affect the line-editor bindings.
If set to 'ALWAYS ON', Lynx will locally execute commands contained
inside any links. This can be HIGHLY DANGEROUS, so it is recommended
that they remain 'ALWAYS OFF' or 'FOR LOCAL FILES ONLY'.
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.
This allows you to set alternate key bindings for the built-in line editor,
if Alternate Bindings have been installed.
Otherwise, Lynx uses the Default Binding.
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.
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 o