Here's my draft of how a reorganized Froms Based Options Screen would
appear.
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Options Menu (Lynx Version 2.8.3dev.18++)
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Save options to disk: [_]
(options marked with (!) will not be saved)
General Preferences
User mode : [Advanced....]
Cookies (!) : [ask user..]
Searching type : [Case insensitive]
Keyboard Input
Keypad mode : [Links are numbered................]
Emacs keys : [OFF]
VI keys : [OFF]
Line edit style : [Bash-like Bindings]
Keyboard layout : [YAWERTY Cyrillic, for DEC LK201 kbd]
Editor : __________________________________________
Display and Character Sets
Display character set : [Cyrillic (ISO-8859-5)..........]
Assumed document character set(!): [iso-8859-1......]
Raw 8-bit (!) : [OFF]
Messages Locale (!) : __________________________________________
X Display (!) : __________________________________________
Document Appearance
Show color : [ON....]
Show cursor : [OFF]
Popups for select fields : [ON.]
HTML error recovery (!) : [strict (SortaSGML mode)]
Show images (!) : [as labels]
Verbose images : [OFF..........]
Headers transferred to servers
Personal mail address : __________________________________________
Preferred document character set : _________________________________
Preferred document language : _________________________________
User-Agent header (!) : __________________________________________
Listing and Accessing Files
FTP sort criteria : [By Name]
Local directory sort criteria : [Mixed style......]
Show dot files : [ON.]
Execution links : [FOR LOCAL FILES ONLY]
Special Files and Screens
Multi-bookmarks : [ADVANCED]
Review/edit Bookmarks files : [2]Goto multi-bookmark menu
Visited Pages : [As Visit Tree..........]
Check your [3]lynx.cfg here
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Notes:
Message Locale doesn't exist yet (it's something I am experimenting
with), so just ignore it.
Most important options should come first.
"User mode" is _the_ most important one. Every Novice user should
sooner or later graduate to changind to Advanced. This should be in
a prominet place.
This is strictly a reordering and re-titling of existing options,
theo options themselves are left unchanged. Not that they are ideal,
but not now.
Basic input & output ("Keyboard" and "Display") are most important
to set up as needed, before it makes sense to customize the finer
points. So those sections come first.
Lynx is a Web browser/HTTP client/HTML renderer primarily and a way
to access local files only secondarily (for most people), so
"Headers ..." comes before "Listing ... Files".
"Special Files" comes last because, uhm, they're special situations.
Comments?
Klaus
