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+<head>
+ <meta name="generator" content=
+ "HTML Tidy for Linux (vers 25 March 2009), see www.w3.org">
+
+ <title>Lynx Line Editor Default Key Binding</title>
+ <link rev="made" href="mailto:lynx-dev@nongnu.org">
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content=
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+ <meta name="description" content=
+ " Describes Lynx's built-in line-editor, when it is used, and the keys used for the default binding. There are alternate and special bindings.">
+ </head>
+
+<body>
+ <div class="nav">
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="#overview">Overview</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="#regular_keymap">Regular Keymap</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="#editing_keymap">Editing Keymap</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="#examples">Try it yourself</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="#notes">Notes</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ </div>
+
+ <h2><a name="overview" id="overview">Overview</a></h2>
+
+ <p><strong>Lynx</strong> invokes a built-in <em>Line Editor</em>
+ 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
+ <strong>Lynx</strong> was configured with
+ <code>--disable-alt-bindings</code>). If available, they may be
+ selected via the &ldquo;o&rdquo;ptions menu, or by editing
+ lineedit_mode in the &ldquo;.lynxrc&rdquo; file.</p>
+
+ <p>Two such alternative key bindings, which may be available on
+ your system, are the</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="alt_edit_help.html">Alternative Binding</a> keymap
+ and the</li>
+
+ <li><a href="bashlike_edit_help.html">Bash-like Binding</a>
+ keymap.</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>You can always see the current set of key-bindings in
+ <strong>Lynx</strong> by opening the special URL <a href=
+ "LYNXEDITMAP:">LYNXEDITMAP:</a>. This page is provided for those
+ not using Lynx.</p>
+
+ <p><strong><em>Note:</em></strong> setting emacs/vi keys ON has
+ no effect on line-editor bindings.</p>
+
+ <h2><a name="regular_keymap" id="regular_keymap">Regular
+ Keymap</a></h2>
+
+ <p>This is the <em>Default Binding</em> keymap:</p>
+ <pre>
+ 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 (<em><a href=
+"#note_1">see note 1</a></em>)
+ 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) (<em><a href="#note_2">see note 2</a></em>)
+ SWMAP Switch input keymap - Ctrl-^ (if compiled in)
+</pre>
+
+ <h2><a name="editing_keymap" id="editing_keymap">Editing
+ Keymap</a></h2>
+
+ <p><a name="TASpecial" id="TASpecial">These are special commands
+ for use only in textarea fields</a> (<em><a href="#note_3">see
+ note 3</a></em>):</p>
+ <pre>
+ Textarea external edit - Ctrl-X e
+ Insert file in textarea - Ctrl-X i
+ Grow textarea - Ctrl-X g
+</pre>
+
+ <h2><a name="emacs_bindings" id="emacs_bindings">Emacs-like
+ commands</a></h2>
+ <pre>
+ 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 (<em><a href="#note_3">see note 3</a></em>)
+ YANK Insert text last killed (with KILLREG) - Ctrl-y
+</pre>
+
+ <h2><a name="examples" id="examples">Try it yourself</a></h2>
+
+ <p>Here is a little textarea for practice:</p>
+
+ <form action="">
+ <p>
+ <textarea name="practice" cols="40" rows="5">
+This text cannot be submitted. Normally lines like
+these would be part of a form that is filled out and
+then submitted. You can move around here and delete
+or add text as you like, using the Line-Editor keys.
+</textarea><input type="reset" value="[reset content]"></p>
+ </form>
+
+ <h2><a name="special_keys" id="special_keys">Special
+ keys</a></h2>
+
+ <p><samp><dfn>Ctrl-</dfn><strong>key</strong> means
+ Control+<strong><kbd>key</kbd></strong>.
+ <dfn><code>Ctrl-x</code></dfn> <strong>key</strong> means first
+ Control+<kbd>x</kbd>, then <strong><kbd>key</kbd></strong>.
+ <dfn>M-</dfn>key means Meta+<strong><kbd>key</kbd></strong>,
+ where Meta is a modifier that can be entered in a variety of
+ ways:</samp></p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>First ESC, then the <strong><kbd>key</kbd></strong>. 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).</li>
+
+ <li>Alt+<strong><kbd>key</kbd></strong>. 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
+ <strong>Lynx</strong> for DOS/i386 or for Win32.</li>
+
+ <li>Ctrl-x <strong><kbd>key</kbd></strong>. Actually, currently
+ the same internal table is used for Meta and the Ctrl-x prefix.
+ Therefore all M-<strong><kbd>key</kbd></strong> combinations
+ can also be typed as Ctrl-x <strong><kbd>key</kbd></strong>,
+ and vice versa.</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>A few key names may be less familiar now than when
+ <strong>Lynx</strong> was first written: <em>Find</em>,
+ <em>Select</em> and <em>Remove</em>. The <a href=
+ "https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_keypad">XTerm
+ FAQ</a> shows some typical keypad layouts of emulators for VT220
+ and other DEC terminals.</p>
+
+ <p>The VT220 did not have a &ldquo;backspace&rdquo; key but
+ <strong>Lynx</strong>'s default bindings mention it. Both ASCII
+ <samp>BS</samp> (backspace) and <samp>DEL</samp> are bound by
+ default to the same functions. <samp>DEL</samp> (occasionally
+ referred to as <samp>RUBOUT</samp>) is not the same as
+ <samp>Delete</samp>: the former is a single character while the
+ latter is usually a sequence of characters.</p>
+
+ <h2><a name="notes" id="notes">Notes</a></h2>
+
+ <ol>
+ <li id="note_1">"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.</li>
+
+ <li id="note_2">Follow Ctrl-V with any recognized key command,
+ to "escape" from a text input field.</li>
+
+ <li id="note_3">For other key combinations using Ctrl-X as a
+ prefix key, see the Help page for the <a rel="Sibling" title=
+ "Bash-Like Binding" href=
+ "bashlike_edit_help.html">Bash-Like</a> Binding.</li>
+ </ol>
+</body>
+</html>