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