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<h2>Overview</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 'o'ptions menu, or by editing lineedit_mode in
the '.lynxrc' file.</p>
<p>Two such alternative key bindings, which may be available on
your system, are the</p>
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<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>
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<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>Note: setting emacs/vi keys ON has no effect on line-editor
bindings.</p>
<h2>Regular Keymap</h2>
<p>This is the <em>Default Binding</em> keymap:</p>
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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 - Ctrl-H, 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)
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<h2>Editing Keymap</h2>
<p><a name="TASpecial" id="TASpecial">These are special commands
for use only in textarea fields</a> (see note 3):</p>
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Textarea external edit - Ctrl-X e
Insert file in textarea - Ctrl-X i
Grow textarea - Ctrl-X g
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<h2>Notes</h2>
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<li>"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>Follow Ctrl-V with any recognized key command, to "escape"
from a text input field.</li>
<li>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>
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