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LINKSKEYS

NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

Key binding statements are of the form:

bind keymap keystroke action where:

keymap

is main, edit, or menu.

keystroke

is a case sensitive key, which you can prefix with Ctrl- or Alt-. Ctrl- must be followed by an uppercase key. See below for a list of valid keys.

action

is what the key should do. The actions available are dependent on the keymap, and are listed separately below.

All words/strings may all be quoted "like so". Backslashes are escape characters, even if not between quotes. Lines beginning with a hash character (#) are comments.

Key can be unbound using the unbind statement.

unbind keymap keystroke It may be of use if you accidentally type a key often.

KEYS

Valid keys are: alphanumeric characters, punctuation, Enter, Backspace, Tab, Escape, Left, Right, Up, Down, Insert, Delete, Home, End, PageUp, PageDown, F1 to F12.

Some keys will need to be quoted or escaped. For example, space can be written as " " (quote space quote), and the quote itself as \" (backslash quote). Backslash can be written as \\ (double backslash).

MAIN KEYMAP ACTIONS

add-bookmark

Open a dialog box to add a new bookmark.

back

Return to the previous page.

bookmark-manager

Open the bookmark manager dialog.

cookies-load

??? Reload cookies file. (ELinks only) [pasky, shouldn't this be load-cookies?]

copy-clipboard

Copy the current link to the clipboard.

document-info

Show some information about the current page.

down

Move cursor downwards.

download

Start downloading the current link.

end

Go to the end of the page.

enter

Follow the current link.

file-menu

Open the File menu.

find-next

Find the next occurrence of the current search text.

find-next-back

Find the next occurrence of the current search text, in reverse.

goto-url

Open a "Go to URL" dialog box.

goto-url-current

Open a "Go to URL" dialog box containing the current URL.

goto-url-current-link

Open a "Go to URL" dialog box containing the current link.

header-info

Show the current page header information.

home

Go to the start of the page.

lua-console

Open a Lua Console dialog box. Only available if Lua scripting support has been compiled in (Links-Lua and ELinks).

menu

Activate the menu.

next-frame

Move to the next frame.

open-new-window

Open a new instace of links in a new window.

open-link-in-new-window

Open the current link in a new instance of links in a new window.

page-down

Move downwards by a page.

page-up

Move upwards by a page.

paste-clipboard

Paste text from the clipboard.

previous-frame

Move to the previous frame.

quit

Open a quit confirmation dialog box.

really-quit

Quit without confirmation. Not in links 0.96.

reload

Reload the current page.

scroll-down

Scroll the viewing window downwards.

scroll-left

Scroll the viewing window to the left.

scroll-right

Scroll the viewing window to the right.

scroll-up

Scroll the viewing window upwards.

search

Search for some text.

search-back

Search for some text, in reverse.

toggle-display-images

Toggle whether to display links to images.

toggle-display-tables

Toggle whether to render tables.

toggle-html-plain

Toggles between rendering the current page as HTML or plaintext.

unback

Go forwards in unhistory. (ELinks only)

up

Move cursor upwards.

view-image

View the image under the cursor.

zoom-frame

Show the current frame using the entire screen.

EDIT KEYMAP ACTIONS

The edit keymap is used for editing text fields.

up

down

left

right

home

end

backspace

delete

kill-to-bol

Delete text from cursor to beginning of line.

kill-to-eol

Delete text from cursor to end of line.

auto-complete

enter

copy-clipboard

cut-clipboard

paste-clipboard

edit

Edit the current textarea in an external text editor. (ELinks only)

MENU KEYMAP ACTIONS

The menu keymap is used for navigating menus.

left

right

up

down

home

end

page-up

page-down

DEFAULT BINDINGS

The default bindings are shown below. Any bindings in user.cfg will override these. This list is given as an example, and may not be up to date.

bind main PageDown      page-down
bind main " "           page-down
bind main Ctrl-F        page-down
bind main PageUp        page-up
bind main b             page-up
bind main B             page-up
bind main Ctrl-B        page-up
bind main Down          down
bind main Up            up
bind main Ctrl-Insert   copy-clipboard
bind main Ctrl-C        copy-clipboard
bind main Insert        scroll-up
bind main Ctrl-P        scroll-up
bind main Delete        scroll-down
bind main Ctrl-N        scroll-down
bind main [             scroll-left
bind main ]             scroll-right
bind main Home          home
bind main Ctrl-A        home
bind main End           end
bind main Ctrl-E        end
bind main Right         enter
bind main Enter         enter
bind main Left          back
bind main d             download
bind main D             download
bind main /             search
bind main ?             search-back
bind main n             find-next
bind main N             find-next-back
bind main f             zoom-frame
bind main F             zoom-frame
bind main Ctrl-R        reload
bind main g             goto-url
bind main G             goto-url-current
bind main a             add-bookmark
bind main A             add-bookmark
bind main s             bookmark-manager
bind main S             bookmark-manager
bind main q             quit
bind main Q             really-quit
bind main =             document-info
bind main |             header-info
bind main \\            toggle-html-plain
bind main *             toggle-display-images
bind main Tab           next-frame
bind main Esc           menu
bind main F9            menu
bind main F10           file-menu

bind edit Left          left
bind edit Right         right
bind edit Home          home
bind edit Ctrl-A        home
bind edit Up            Up
bind edit Down          down
bind edit End           end
bind edit Ctrl-E        end
bind edit Ctrl-Insert   copy-clipboard
bind edit Ctrl-B        copy-clipboard
bind edit Ctrl-X        cut-clipboard
bind edit Ctrl-V        paste-clipboard
bind edit Enter         enter
bind edit Backspace     backspace
bind edit Ctrl-H        backspace
bind edit Delete        delete
bind edit Ctrl-D        delete
bind edit Ctrl-U        kill-to-bol
bind edit Ctrl-K        kill-to-eol
bind edit Ctrl-W        auto-complete

bind menu Left          left
bind menu Right         right
bind menu Home          home
bind menu Ctrl-A        home
bind menu Up            up
bind menu Down          down
bind menu End           end
bind menu Ctrl-E        end
bind menu Enter         enter
bind menu PageDown      page-down
bind menu Ctrl-F        page-down
bind menu PageUp        page-up
bind menu Ctrl-B        page-up

# ELinks only
bind main u             unback
bind main U             unback
bind main Ctrl-K        cookies-load
bind edit F4            edit
bind edit Ctrl-T        edit

# Links-Lua and ELinks
bind main ,             lua-console

FILES

/etc/links.cfg Site-wide configuration file.

~/.links/user.cfg Per-user configuration file, loaded after site-wide configuration.

AUTHOR

This manual page was finally written by Peter Wang (one and a half years after writing the binding code), using excerpts by David Mediavilla. You can thank Petr Baudis for the subtle requests for documentation..

SEE ALSO

Index

NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

KEYS

MAIN KEYMAP ACTIONS

EDIT KEYMAP ACTIONS

MENU KEYMAP ACTIONS

DEFAULT BINDINGS

FILES

AUTHOR

SEE ALSO