Lynx Line Editor Default Key Binding

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Overview
Regular Keymap
Editing Keymap
Try it yourself
Notes

+ +

Overview

+ +

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

+ +

Alternative Binding keymap + and the
Bash-like Binding + keymap.

+ +

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.

+ +

Regular + Keymap

+ +

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)
+

Editing + Keymap

+ +

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
+

Emacs-like + commands

+ +

+    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
+

Try it yourself

+ +

Here is a little textarea for practice:

+ + + +

Special keys

+ +

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: +

+ +

First ESC, then the key. This + does not work with all systems or on all connections, and if it + does may not work for some keys (because the ESC character is + also part of code sequences for "normal" function keys).
Alt+key. This works if the + terminal, console, or comm program is set up to interpret Alt + as a modifier to send ESC. The Linux console acts like that by + default for most keys; Kermit can be set up to do it, xterm can + be for some keys, and so on. But the same caveats as for the + previous item apply. This Alt mapping may also be possible, + independent of the ESC character, for some keys in + Lynx for DOS/i386 or for Win32.
Ctrl-x key. Actually, currently + the same internal table is used for Meta and the Ctrl-x prefix. + Therefore all M-key combinations + can also be typed as Ctrl-x key, + and vice versa.

+ +

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.

+ +

Notes

+ +

"next" means the character "under" a box or + underline style cursor; it means "to the immediate right of" an + I-beam (between characters) type cursor.
Follow Ctrl-V with any recognized key command, + to "escape" from a text input field.
For other key combinations using Ctrl-X as a + prefix key, see the Help page for the Bash-Like Binding.

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