Changeset d37f788

Timestamp:

03/11/2008 02:17:18 PM (16 years ago)

Author:

Alexander E. Patrakov <alexander@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 6.3, 6.3-rc1, 6.3-rc2, 6.3-rc3, 7.10, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.6-blfs, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, gnome, kde5-13430, kde5-14269, kde5-14686, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, krejzi/svn, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, systemd-11177, systemd-13485, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

8a246c7

Parents:

e6c872e

Message:

Added some configuration tweaks to Lynx

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@7250 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

Files:

• basicnet/textweb/lynx.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• introduction/welcome/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)

basicnet/textweb/lynx.xml

@@ -193 +193 @@
 <screen><userinput>sed -i 's/#\(LOCALE_CHARSET\):FALSE/\1:TRUE/' /etc/lynx/lynx.cfg</userinput></screen>
 
+      <para>The built-in editor in <application>Lynx</application>
+      <xref linkend="locale-wrong-multibyte-characters"/>. This issue manifests
+      itself in multibyte locales, e.g., as the Backspace key not erasing
+      non-ASCII characters properly, and as incorrect data being sent to the
+      network when one edits the contents of text areas. The only solution
+      to this problem is to configure <application>Lynx</application> to
+      use an external editor (bound to the <quote>Ctrl+X e</quote> key
+      combination by default):</para>
+<screen><userinput>sed -i 's/#\(DEFAULT_EDITOR\):/\1:vi/' /etc/lynx/lynx.cfg</userinput></screen>
+
+      <para><application>Lynx</application> handles the following values of
+      the DEFAULT_EDITOR option specially by adding cursor-positioning
+      arguments: <quote>emacs</quote>, <quote>jed</quote>,
+      <quote>jmacs</quote>, <quote>joe</quote>, <quote>jove</quote>,
+      <quote>jpico</quote>, <quote>jstar</quote>, <quote>pico</quote>,
+      <quote>rjoe</quote>, <quote>vi</quote> (but not <quote>vim</quote>:
+      in order to position the cursor in <xref linkend="vim"/>, set this
+      option to <quote>vi</quote>).</para>
+
+<!--  For editors:
+      The list should be updated from src/LYEdit.c when a new version of Lynx
+      comes out. Anyway, upstream promises (in
+      ftp://lynx.isc.org/current/CHANGES ) to fix the multibyte issue for 2.8.7
+-->
+
+      <para>By default, <application>Lynx</application> doesn't save cookies
+      between sessions. Change this setting:</para>
+<screen><userinput>sed -i 's/#\(PERSISTENT_COOKIES\):FALSE/\1:TRUE/' /etc/lynx/lynx.cfg</userinput></screen>
+
       <para>Many other system-wide settings such as proxies can also be set
       in the <filename>/etc/lynx/lynx.cfg</filename> file.</para>

introduction/welcome/changelog.xml

@@ -45 +45 @@
       <para>March 11th, 2008</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[alexander] - Mentioned the locale issue with the built-in
+          editor in Lynx, and made cookies persistent.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[alexander] - Changed Lynx download URL in order to avoid