Re: lynx-dev question about -dump

[Bela Lubkin]

Philip Webb wrote:

> BTW in checking things out i came upon a strange phenomenon:
> i edited  .lynxrc  to remove link numbers temporarily,
> did  restart  (in case) & ran  lynx28 -dump http://foo >test.d1 ,
> but the links in  test.d1  were STILL numbered!
> when i simply started Lynx with  lynx28 , however, they weren't!
> presumably,  .lynxrc  alters settings only in interactive mode,
> whence the switch  -number_links  to force link numbering,
> tho' there's no corresponding  -numbers_as_arrows  to suppress them.

You can use -number_links=0 to turn it off, in which case you *might*
get numbers_as_arrows behavior.  (There are other factors -- I don't
think it'll work if you've turned on LINKS_AND_FORM_FIELDS_ARE_NUMBERED
-- handling of options like this is still a mess...)

>Bela<