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Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Lynx Keystrokes
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WHITLOCK |
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Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Lynx Keystrokes |
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Sun, 09 Feb 1997 16:34:57 -0600 (CDT) |
"Jim Spath (Webmaster Jim)" <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Feb 1997, Scott McGee (Personal) wrote:
>
> > Will Mengarini worte concerning mods to allow $LYNX_CFG to take a colon
> > seperated list thus allowing multiple lynx.cfg files. Would this mean that
> > ...
> > If that is what it means (and I expleained it so that anyone could tell what
> > I was saying), then I vote a resounding YES for adding such after 2-7!
>
> C-Kermit has a similar startup process. There is a compiled-in full path
> name to the site Kermit settings, which might end up in /usr/local/lib. A
> user may have additional setting in her home directory, like this:
Pine takes this one step further, which I (as a sysadmin) like very much.
First it reads a public file containing the normal defaults. Then it
a file from the user's home directory with the user's preferences. But
last of all, it reads another file from a public directory containing
fixed settings that the user CANNOT override.
Lynx works as a restricted shell (as many freenets use it) now precisely
because the .lynxrc does not let a user change everything that has been
set in lynx.cfg. A user can't reactivate things that system policy has
set off. If a user's .lynxcfg is allowed to set everything that has been
set in the default lynx.cfg, there should still be a lynx.cfg.fixed that
overrides them all. For people using lynx as a restricted shell, this
would be very helpful. There's already a taste of it in the difference
between the DEFAULT_EDITOR and SYSTEM_EDITOR.
-- Brad Whitlock
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