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<h1>Keystroke Commands</h1>
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<a href=
"movement_help.html">MOVEMENT</a>: Down arrow - Highlight next topic
Up arrow - Highlight previous topic
Right arrow, - Jump to highlighted topic
Return, Enter - Follow selected link
Left arrow - Return to previous topic
<a href=
"scrolling_help.html">SCROLLING</a>: + - Scroll down to next page (Page-Down)
- - Scroll up to previous page (Page-Up)
SPACE - Scroll down to next page (Page-Down)
b - Scroll up to previous page (Page-Up)
CTRL-A - Go to first page of the current document (Home)
CTRL-E - Go to last page of the current document (End)
CTRL-B - Scroll up to previous page (Page-Up)
CTRL-F - Scroll down to next page (Page-Down)
CTRL-N - Go forward two lines in the current document
CTRL-P - Go back two lines in the current document
) - Go forward half a page in the current document
( - Go back half a page in the current document
^ - Go to the first link on the current line
$ - Go to the last link on the current line
< - Go to the previous link in the current column
> - Go to the next link in the current column
# - Go to Toolbar or Banner in the current document
<a href=
"dired_help.html">DIRED</a>: c - Create a new file
d - Download selected file
e - Edit selected file
f - Show a full menu of options for current file
m - Modify the name or location of selected file
r - Remove selected file
t - Tag highlighted file
u - Upload a file into the current directory
<a href=
"other_help.html">OTHER</a>: ? (or h) - Help (this screen)
a - Add the current link to a bookmark file
c - Send a comment to the document owner
d - Download the current link
e - Edit the current file
E - Edit the current link's URL (or ACTION) and
use that as a goto URL.
g - Goto a user specified <a href=
"../lynx_url_support.html">URL</a> or file
G - Edit the current document's URL and use that
as a goto URL.
i - Show an index of documents
j - Execute a jump operation
k - Show list of actual key mappings
l - List references (links) in current document
m - Return to main screen
o - Set your <a href=
"option_help.html">options</a>
p - <a href=
"print_help.html">Print</a> to a file, mail, printers, or other
q - Quit (Capital 'Q' for quick quit)
/ - Search for a string within the current document
s - Enter a search string for an external search
n - Go to the next search string
N - Go to the previous search string
v - View a <a href=
"bookmark_help.html">bookmark file</a>
V - Go to the <a href=
"visited_help.html">Visited Links Page</a>
x - Force submission of form or link with no-cache
z - Cancel transfer in progress
[backspace] - Go to the <a href=
"history_help.html">History Page</a>
= - Show info about current document, URL and link
\ - Toggle document source/rendered view
! - Spawn your default shell
' - Toggle "historical" vs minimal or valid comment
parsing
_ - Clear all authorization info for this session
` - Toggle minimal or valid comment parsing
* - Toggle image_links mode on and off
@ - Toggle raw 8-bit translations or CJK mode
on or off
. - Run external program on the current link.
, - Run external program on the current document.
{ - Shift the screen left.
} - Shift the screen right.
| - Toggle line-wrap mode. When line-wrap is
off, you may use { and } to shift the screen
left/right. The screen width is set to 999.
~ - Toggle parsing of nested tables (experimental).
[ - Toggle pseudo_inlines mode on and off
] - Send a HEAD request for the current doc or link
" - Toggle valid or "soft" double-quote parsing
CTRL-R - Reload current file and refresh the screen
CTRL-L - Refresh the screen
CTRL-V - Outside of a text input line or field,
switch to <a href=
"option_help.html#tagsoup">alternative parsing</a> of HTML.
- In a form text input field,
CTRL-V prompts for a key command (allows
<a href=
"../Lynx_users_guide.html#CtrlVNote">escaping</a> from the field).
Note that on most UNIX hosts, CTRL-V is bound
via stty to the lnext (literal-next) code but
the exact behavior of that is implementation
specific. On Solaris you must type CTRL-V
twice to use it, since it quotes the following
keystroke.
CTRL-U - Inside text input line or field,
erase input line (<a href=
"edit_help.html">more input line commands</a>)
- Outside of text input or field,
undo returning to previous topic.
CTRL-G - Cancel input or transfer
CTRL-T - Toggle trace mode on and off
; - View the Lynx Trace Log for the current session
CTRL-K - Invoke the <a href=
"cookie_help.html">Cookie Jar Page</a>
CTRL-X - Invoke the <a href=
"../Lynx_users_guide.html#Cache">Cache Jar Page</a>
numbers - Invoke the prompt
<a href=
"follow_help.html">Follow link (or goto link or page) number:</a>
or the
<a href=
"follow_help.html#select-option">Select option (or page) number:</a>
prompt
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