Editing Help:Text editor support (section)

===== Defaults to reconsider =====
The following options are often found as defaults in Lynx binaries compiled for Windows and might not meet formatting conventions used in Wikipedia. These options can be edited from <CODE>lynx.cfg</CODE> and are usually not specified in the Options page. Before editing, back up the file and rename it to <CODE>lynx.cfg.old</CODE>, for example.

====== Collapsed <NOWIKI><BR></NOWIKI> tags ======
The <CODE>COLLAPSE_BR_TAGS:</CODE> option should be set to <CODE>FALSE</CODE>, as in the example below:
 COLLAPSE_BR_TAGS:FALSE
The reason is that some editors intentionally use more than one <CODE><NOWIKI><BR></NOWIKI></CODE> tag, especially in locations where conventional paragraph breaks are not allowed.

====== Justified text ======
Graphical browsers do not show this, since justification is not used. For this, set
 JUSTIFY:FALSE

====== Numbered links ======
As Wikipedia articles very often feature linked content in tables, the numbers in brackets before or next to links may be distracting. Set these following options:
 DEFAULT_KEYPAD_MODE:LINKS_ARE_NOT_NUMBERED
 NUMBER_LINKS_ON_LEFT:FALSE

====== Editing ======
The typical key combination to invoke an out-of-Lynx editor in Windows is Ctrl+x+e and not Ctrl+E+e like in Unices and elsewhere; this can be changed in the config file. Both an internal and external editor can be used, according to taste and preferences. Avoid Windows Notepad for reasons stated above. And only since Windows XP does WordPad have full Unicode support (with some reservations).<br>
An example with Vim, configured to use the mediawiki syntax:
 SYSTEM_EDITOR:C:\Progra~1\Vim\vim73\vim.exe -c "setf mediawiki"
Note the double quotes ^

====== Colour issues ======
When using an in-window editor like Vim and after exiting back into Lynx, any colour theme Lynx uses is rendered inoperable (links and buttons not highlighted anymore), so the best practice is to never show colors in Options (in section Appearance), and save the settings.