Help on Lynx Keystroke Commands
Description: Lynx recognizes many single-character commands. This is an overview to their default bindings, with links to more detailed documentation.

## Overview

Lynx recognizes many single-character commands. This is an overview to their default bindings, with links to more detailed documentation.

## Movement

           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

## Scrolling

           +              - 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

## Dired

           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

## Other

           ? (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 URL 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 options
           p              - Print 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 bookmark file
           V              - Go to the Visited Links Page
           x              - Force submission of form or link with no-cache
           z              - Cancel transfer in progress
           [backspace]    - Go to the History Page
           =              - 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-S         - For UNIX hosts:
                            Copy the URL for the current document or link to
                            the clipboard using command in $RL_CLCOPY_CMD. as
                            illustrated in the clipboard_set function
                            of the (undated) Perl Term-ReadLine-Perl script.
                            The clipboard contents can be retrieved using Lynx's
                            PASTE_URL command (in turn, via $RL_PASTE_CMD).

           CTRL-V         - Outside of a text input line or field,
                            switch to alternative parsing of HTML.
                          - In a form text input field,
                            CTRL-V prompts for a key command (allows
                            escaping 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 (more input line commands)
                          - 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 Cookie Jar Page
           CTRL-X         - Invoke the Cache Jar Page
           numbers        - Invoke the prompt
                              Follow link (or goto link or page) number:
                            or the
                              Select option (or page) number:
                            prompt