Thank you Halász Sándor, the problem is solved.  I did not know that the
file .lynxrc existed.  I've made the changes I want in that file and lynx
now behaves as desired.  So if I ever want to make further changes, I'll do
so directly in .lynxrc

2011/9/27 Halász Sándor <[email protected]>

> >>>> 2011/09/26 11:37 -0700, Graham Lawrence >>>>
> As user, I cannot save option changes to disk, so my changes remain in
> effect only until the session closes.
> As root there is no such problem.  But I rarely work as root.
>
> I've changed ~/lynx.cfg to have the options I want, but that has no effect
> on lynx's behavior
> <<<<<<<<
> This last file is read only if somehow you point it out to Lynx, through
> environment variable LYNX_CFG or on the command line after "-cfg".
> Furthermore, it is intended for general, not particular use. For particular
> use, for Options, the file usually named ".lynxrc" is the one.
>
> If Lynx runs, though, somehwere it found a version of the configuration
> file. On the option page there is a link to it from "View the file
> lynx.cfg": follow the link and see the full path name.
>
>
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