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- From: guckes@math.fu-berlin.de (Sven Guckes)
- Subject: Re: Options Choice
- Message-ID: <IL40QVS@math.fu-berlin.de>
- Originator: guckes@medusa
- Sender: news@math.fu-berlin.de (Math Department)
- Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany
- References: <1993Jan20.202549.41051@r-node.pci.on.ca>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 02:41:01 GMT
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- magnet@r-node.pci.on.ca writes:
-
- >Can anyone out there give me a bit of input on how (or whether) you
- >can change the set of options available via the "o" command?
- >I can change the assorted options listed in the elmrc file by editing
- >that file, but since one of the options in elmrc is itself the list of
- >options available via "o", it seems as if this can be changed.
-
- Indeed, the values of all variables in the option menu can be changed.
- The changes won't be permanent until you save your changes with '>'.
-
- The option menu however lists only a subset of all options (read: variables).
- A lot more options can be configured by editing the configuration file
- ($HOME/.elm/elmrc), usually called the "ELMRC" (where the "rc" at the end
- stands for "read commands").
-
- Variables and their values in the ELMRC are listed like this:
- |->
- # A comment explaing what the variable is used for.
- variablename = value
- <-|
-
- Common values are "ON", "OFF", pathnames or filenames.
- Please note that the ELMRC is sorted alphabetically by variable names.
-
- Have a look at it once and see what else ELM offers for confuguration.
- Caveat: If you don't know what a variable affects - don't change it!
- (Well, at least make a backup first. :)
-
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