Hmm, I would have *sworn* that this stuff wasn't in /etc/lynx.cfg lasttime I looked. Once I had the source, I read debian/README.debian, and found the answer to my problems :)
The color answer: These settings look nice on the crummy screen, but they have an interesting idea of what "white" means :) COLOR:0:black:white COLOR:1:blue:white COLOR:2:yellow:blue COLOR:3:green:black COLOR:4:magenta:white COLOR:5:blue:white COLOR:6:red:white COLOR:7:magenta:cyan As for the external viewer, EXTERNAL:http:xterm -T lynx -e lynx %s & : TRUE does just what I need. I suppose I could try to get greedy, and come up with a script to number lynx viewr, or use sed in `` to name it something else, but the point is to conserve resources so I can continue working. Removing netscape from my life can certainly do this . . . (But now I want another key in addition to . so that I can have wget, too :)