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Official Lynx Users Guide:
For configuring `lynx.cfg` see:
lynx.cfg - Settings by alphabetic order
+-------+-------+-------+
| TOP | /|\ | Page |
| of | | | UP |
| text 7| | 8| 9|
+---------+ +-------+-------+-------+
| SELECT | | | | |
| prev /|\| | <--- | | ---> |
| link | | | 4| 5| 6|
+---------+---------+---------+ +-------+-------+-------+
| BACK | SELECT | DISPLAY | | END | | | Page |
|<-- prev | next | | sel. -->| | of | | | DOWN |
| doc. | link \|/| link | | text 1| \|/ 2| 3|
+---------+---------+---------+ +-------+-------+-------+
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| KEY | DESCRIPTION |
|-----------|---------------------------------------------|
| Control-A | jump to the beginning |
| Control-E | jump to the end |
| Control-B | jump to the previous page |
| Control-F | jump to the next page |
| Control-N | jump forward two lines |
| Control-P | jump back two lines |
| ) | jump forward half a page |
| ( | jump back half a page |
| { | scroll left by half of the display's width |
| } | scroll right by half of the display's width |
| \# | jump to the pseudo Toolbar or Banner |
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+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | COMMAND | KEY | DESCRIPTION | |-------------|---------------------|---------------------------------------------------| | MAIN_MENU | m or M | starting document or homepage | | RELOAD | Control-R | reload | | SEARCH | / or s | search | | HISTORY | Backspace or Delete | history | | VLINKS | V | visited links page | | LIST | l | compact list of all links in the current document | | ADDRLIST | A | list to all link in the current document | | INDEX | i | index | | EDIT | e | edit the file | | DOWNLOAD | d or D | download the source file | | VIEW_SOURCE | \ | view source | | SAVE | p | save rendered file | | KEYMAP | k or K | see key bindings | | OPTIONS | o | options [r - rterurn; > - save] | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | KEY | DESCRIPTION | |-----------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | G | edit the URL of the current document and then use that as a goto URL | | E | edit the URL (or ACTION) of the current link and then use that as a goto URL | | g | allow any URL to be viewed | | z | halt transfer process | | ! | spawn default shell | | \| | toggle Lynx line-wrapping | | Control-K | invoke the Cookie Jar Page | | Control-T | toggle Lynx trace mode | | Control-X | invoke the Cache Jar Page | | ; | show the Lynx Trace Log | | = | information about the current document and the currently selected link | | \* | toggle image_links mode | | @ | toggle raw 8-bit or CJK mode | | [ | toggle pseudo_inlines mode | | ] | send HEAD requests for the current document or link | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Save bookmark: a
Open bookmark file: v
If set to ON then the lowercase h, j, k, and l keys will be mapped to left, down, up, and right arrow, respectively.
The uppercase H, J, K, and L keys remain mapped to their configured bindings (normally HELP, JUMP, KEYMAP, and LIST, respectively).
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | SWITCH | DESCRIPTION | |----------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | -anonymous | apply restrictions appropriate for an anonymous account | | -book | use the bookmark page as the startfile | | -case | enable case-sensitive string searching | | -crawl | with -traversal, output each page to a file | | | with -dump, format output as with -traversal, but to stdout | | -dump | dump the formatted output to standard out | | -number_fields | force numbering of links as well as form input fields | | -number_links | force numbering of links | | -session=FILENAME | resume from specified file on startup and saves session to that file on exit | | -sessionin=FILENAME | resume session from specified file | | -sessionout=FILENAME | save session to specified file | | -source | dump HTML source instead of formatted text to stdout | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+