RGFN User's Guide

Lynx Commands

You can move around the World Wide Web in two ways by browsing and selecting links to explore and by issuing commands to go directly to a specific Internet resource with a URL. The WWW browser installed on the Rio Grande Free-Net is LYNX. When you enter LYNX, a default first screen comes up. The default screen is a text file that is linked to documents on the local system, documents on other systems, gophers, and other accessible programs.

Use the following commands to operate in LYNX:

Movement
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Highlight next topic            Down Arrow      
Highlight previous topic        Up Arrow
Return to previous topic        Left Arrow      
Jump to Highlighted topic       Right Arrow, Return, Enter

Scrolling the screen
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Down a page   + or space      Up a page    - or b

Other
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Help                            ? or H  
Refresh screen                  CTRL-W
Quit                            q or Q  
Reload file & refresh           CTRL-R
Return to Main screen           m               
Set your options                o
Download current link           d               
Print to a file or mail         p
Add a bookmark                  a               
View your bookmarks             v
Send author a comment           c               
Go to a specific file           g
Show index of documents         i               
Go to History page              DELETE
Search for a string             /                       
Next search string              n
Show file & link info           =               
Erase input line                        CTRL-U
Cancel transfer in progress     z               
Cancel input or transfer        CTRL-G

Options

Editor:

If non-empty, it allows editing mode when an e is pressed. Any valid text editor may be entered here.

Bookmark file:

If non-empty, it specifies the name of the bookmark file. If the filename is not absolute, then the path begins in your home directory.

Personal Mail Address:

You may set your mail address here so that when mailing messages to other people or files to yourself, your email address can be automatically filled in. Your email address will also be sent to HTTP servers in a field form.

Searching type:

If set to case sensitive, user searches invoked by the / command will be case sensitive substring searches. The default is set for case insensitive substring searches.

Character set:

This option allows you to set up the default character set for your specific terminal. The character set provides mapping of 8 bit ISO Latin character entities into viewable characters and is only important if you will be viewing these type of characters with LYNX.

VI keys:

If set to 'ON' then the lowercase h, j, k, and l keys will be mapped to left, down, up and right, respectively.

Emacs keys:

If set to 'ON' then the CTRL-P, CTRL-N, CTRL-F, and CTRL-B keys will be mapped to up, down, right, and left, respectively.

Keypad as arrows or numbered links:

This option gives the choice between navigating with the keypad and having every link numbered so that the links may be selected by numbers instead of moving to them with the arrow keys.

User Mode:

Beginner - Shows two extra lines of help at the bottom of the screen.

Intermediate - The normal status line appears (default).

Advanced - The URL is shown on the status line.(also see URL section in this guide).

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