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Lynx invokes a built-in Line Editor for entering strings in response to prompts, in forms, and for email messages if an external editor has not been defined. Alternative key bindings are normally available (unless Lynx was configured with --disable-alt-bindings
). If available, they may be selected via the “o”ptions menu, or by editing lineedit_mode in the “.lynxrc” file.
Two such alternative key bindings, which may be available on your system, are the
You can always see the current set of key-bindings in Lynx by opening the special URL LYNXEDITMAP:. This page is provided for those not using Lynx.
Note: setting emacs/vi keys ON has no effect on line-editor bindings.
This is the Default Binding keymap:
ENTER Input complete - RETURN TAB Input complete - TAB, Do ABORT Input cancelled - Ctrl-G, Ctrl-O, (Ctrl-C on some systems) ERASE Erase the line - Ctrl-U BACK Cursor back char - Left-Arrow FORW Cursor forward char - Right-Arrow BACKW Cursor back word - Ctrl-P FORWW Cursor forward word - Ctrl-N BOL Go to begin of line - Ctrl-A, Home, Find EOL Go to end of line - Ctrl-E, End, Select DELP Delete prev char - Backspace, Delete, Remove DELN Delete next char - Ctrl-D, Ctrl-R (see note 1) DELPW Delete prev word - Ctrl-B DELNW Delete next word - Ctrl-F DELEL Delete to end of line - Ctrl-_ UPPER Upper case the line - Ctrl-T LOWER Lower case the line - Ctrl-K LKCMD Invoke cmd prompt - Ctrl-V (in form text fields, only) (see note 2) SWMAP Switch input keymap - Ctrl-^ (if compiled in)
These are special commands for use only in textarea fields (see note 3):
Textarea external edit - Ctrl-X e Insert file in textarea - Ctrl-X i Grow textarea - Ctrl-X g
TPOS Transpose characters - Ctrl-t SETMARK Set mark at current position in line - Ctrl-@ XPMARK Exchange current position with mark - Ctrl-x Ctrl-x KILLREG Kill region between mark and position - Ctrl-x Ctrl-w (see note 3) YANK Insert text last killed (with KILLREG) - Ctrl-y
Here is a little textarea for practice:
Ctrl-key means Control+key. Ctrl-x
key means first Control+x, then key. M-key means Meta+key, where Meta is a modifier that can be entered in a variety of ways:
A few key names may be less familiar now than when Lynx was first written: Find, Select and Remove. The XTerm FAQ shows some typical keypad layouts of emulators for VT220 and other DEC terminals.
The VT220 did not have a “backspace” key but Lynx's default bindings mention it. Both ASCII BS (backspace) and DEL are bound by default to the same functions. DEL (occasionally referred to as RUBOUT) is not the same as Delete: the former is a single character while the latter is usually a sequence of characters.