Links Browser - Keyboard Shortcuts

Action Keystroke Comments:
Display Menu or
or
Activates the "Popup Menu" [1.3] at the top of the term window. A mouse click on the top line of the screen produces the same effect.
Screen Refresh No keystroke available. TIP (in X only): To refresh the screen after a system or error message has been written to the terminal, resize the screen to get Links to redraw it.
Exit / Quit Links ^C Closes Links cleanly and quickly.

Action Keystroke Comments:
Open/ Go to
url/filename g or G
Activates pop-up box where you can enter a filename or url.

Using the key while the "Go to box" is active permits scrolling of this session's "Go to" history (i.e. all the urls/filenames you typed in).

Links will also automatically prepend any request with the protocol prefix (http://; file://; ftp://) according to the scheme explained in [Note 1].

Follow and Display current link or
or
-->

Invokes a request for the current link's file to display. A left mouse button click does the same.

Please note that Links, in it's distributed form, will attempt to display any file request.

To prevent the undesirable display of files such as image files, see [Note 2].

Download link file d or D
Same as 'Save Link As' in some other browsers.

To specify a default download directory, add the following line to your ".links.cfg" file.

download_dir Downloads
where "Downloads" is an existing directory relative to your home directory.

Go back <--
Reloads previously displayed document (if any).
Stop fetching <--
To stop a file transfer, press this key once.
Reload/Refresh
current page ^R Note: this is not a screen refresh, it just reloads the page from the server.

Action Keystroke Comments:
Previous link
Jumps to previous link on the current screen, or to the bottom link of the previous screen if there are no intermediate links.

See [Note 3] on how Links navigates a document structured as columns with this arrow key.

Next link
Jumps to next link on the current screen, or to the top link of the next screen if there are no intermediate links.

See [Note 3] on how Links navigates a document structured as columns with this arrow key.

Jump to "bottom of page"
or ^E Jumps to the bottom of the page, i.e. past the bottom of the current screen, if the current screen is not at the bottom.
Jump to "top of page"
or ^A Jumps to the top of the page, i.e. past the top of the current screen, if current screen is not the first one.
Jump to "next screen"
or
or ^F One screen forward (i.e. down). The also does this, but ONLY if there are no intervening links.
Jump to "previous screen" b
or
or ^B Back by one screen (i.e. up). The also does this, but ONLY if there are no intervening links.
Scroll down
or ^N Scrolls down two lines at a time. If any links are on the screen, the first one is active.
Scroll up
or ^P Scrolls up two lines at a time. If any links are on the screen, the last one is active.
Scroll right ] For those pages where content is off the right of the screen.
Scroll left [ Getting back to the left, having just scrolled to the right.

Action Keystroke Comments:
Document info = Displays the currently displayed document's HTTP/1.0 header information in a popup box.
Toggle document view \ HTML --> source (plain text)
source (plain text) --> HTML.
1.2.5 Search and Find
Action Keystroke Comments:
Search forward / See [Note 4] on the Links search and find behaviour.
Search backward ?
Find next n
Find previous N
1.2.6 Other Keystrokes
Action Keystroke Comments:
Follow link ^M or ^J Same as pressing or .
Links --> background ^Z Puts Links into the background. Do fg links to recover the process. Does not work for forked processes, like 'xterm -e links &'