On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 08:24:24PM -0800, Carlton Anderson wrote: > message attached: > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com Content-Description: text.txt > > I wanted to change my default bookmark file > to ~/.lynx/lynx_bookmarks.html; however, I > had some problems doing this. > > Changing the value for DEFAULT_BOOKMARK_FILE > in lynx.cfg doesn't work, because the value > is over-written when ~/.lynxrc is read.
I don't recall this before - perhaps it's only an issue if you're not using multibookmarks... > To clarify things for other users, I suggest > the following things: > > * A comment should be added to the default lynx.cfg > in the DEFAULT_BOOKMARK_FILE section: > "The path to the default bookmark file specified > in the (O)tions menu overrides the value specified > here." > > * A comment _might_ be added to the comments section > of .lynxrc: > "To specify a directory _under_ your home directory, > prepend './' to the path, for example: > ./BM/lynx_bookmarks.html" > > * The (O)ptions screen suggests that the default > bookmark file option is one of the options that > won't be saved to disk, but it will be saved. Most of those won't-be-saved items are optional (see ENABLE_LYNXRC). I didn't notice this particular one when I implemented that; would have been nice if these two items had the same name (which would allow integrating them better). > * The (O)ptions screen needs to have a way to > tell the user that if he or she wants to > put the bookmarks file in a subdirectory > of the home directory, "./" must be prepended > to the path. > > I'm using lynx2.8.5dev11. > > > Carlton > -- Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
