Lynx options not saving

Question

In the terminal I:

• type 'lynx'
• push 'o' for options
• change setting to 'Send User-Agent header (!)'
• then 'Save options to disk' which returns the warning '(options marked (!) will not be saved)'
• then I choose 'save options to disk' and 'accept changes'

but when I quit, the options are not saved and I am not able to use the settings mentioned above.

Answer 1

If you want to save items marked with "(!)", you will have to enable those in your lynx.cfg file (which is different from the .lynxrc file managed by the Options Menu.

See ENABLE_LYNXRC (in the lynx.cfg file):

The forms-based O'ptions menu shows a (!) marker beside items which are not saved to ~/.lynxrc -- the reason for disabling some of these items is that they are likely to cause confusion if they are read from the .lynxrc file for each session. However, they can be enabled or disabled using the ENABLE_LYNXRC settings. The default (compiled-in) settings are shown below. The second column is the name by which a setting is saved to .lynxrc (which is chosen where possible to correspond with **lynx.cf**g). Use "OFF" to disable writing a setting, "ON" to enable it. Settings are read from .lynxrc after the corresponding data from lynx.cfg, so they override lynx.cfg, which is probably what users expect.