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Keyboard shortcuts

csiph-web uses HTML accesskey attributes for keyboard navigation. Activation requires a browser-specific modifier — see Browser modifier keys at the bottom of this page.

Global navigation

Key	Action
`g`	Groups list
`s`	Search
`i`	Server Info
`,`	Preferences
`h`	This help page
`l`	Login (when logged out)
`q`	Focus Query field (on /search)

Group / thread overview

Key	Action
`n`	Newer page / Latest
`p`	Older page
`c`	Compose new post
`a`	Mark all read
`.`	Subscribe / Unsubscribe toggle

Article view

Key	Action
`n`	Next article in group
`p`	Previous article in group
`j`	Next in thread
`k`	Previous in thread
`u`	Up to group thread list
`r`	Reply
`m`	Mark thread read
`w`	Watch / Unwatch thread
`o`	Toggle full / key headers
`f`	Find similar articles

Compose / reply

Key	Action
`b`	Focus Body field

Notes

A few letters (s, n, p) may shadow built-in browser shortcuts; on browsers where they do, the binding will not fire — click the link or button instead.
Bare-key (no modifier) navigation, like a traditional newsreader, requires JavaScript and is intentionally not implemented.
Accesskey on submit buttons (Reply, Mark, Watch, Subscribe, Mark all read) and on the Body textarea is honored by IE 5.5+ and every later browser. Older browsers (Netscape 4, IE 4 / 5.0, pre-2.8.5 Lynx) ignore it on these elements — click or use Tab+Enter instead.
In any browser, the Tab key walks between links and form fields in document order; Enter follows the focused link and submits forms. This is the fallback when accesskey is unsupported or shadowed.
In Lynx, press L to bring up the page's LINK list — this shows the next/previous article, the parent group, and the master groups index (and the help and search links) for the current page.
Screen readers (NVDA, JAWS, Orca, VoiceOver) usually have their own quick-navigation keys that may shadow these bindings. Consult your reader's documentation for the accesskey passthrough.
The set of bindings is fixed — there is no per-user remap.

Browser modifier keys

Browser	Modifier	Notes
Firefox 2+	Alt+Shift+key	Switched from Alt+key in 2006.
Chrome / Edge (Linux, Windows)	Alt+key	Alt+letter may be captured by the File/Edit/View menu when the menu bar is visible (toggle with Alt or F10).
Chrome / Safari (macOS)	Ctrl+Opt+key	Safari may require enabling System Settings → Keyboard → "Use keyboard navigation to move focus."
Lynx 2.8.7+	Ctrl-A then key	ACCESSKEY command; bind or rebind via `KEYMAP` in `lynx.cfg`.
Konqueror	Ctrl+key
Mozilla Suite / SeaMonkey / Netscape 6, 7	Alt+key
Firefox 1.x	Alt+key
Internet Explorer 5.5–11	Alt+key	Activates form fields directly; for links, focuses only — press Enter to follow.
Opera 7–12 (Presto)	Shift+Esc, then key	Unique chord pattern; never collides with native shortcuts.
Netscape 4 and earlier, IE 4 and 5.0, w3m, links, older Lynx	—	Accesskey not supported (or IE 5.0: links only, buggy).

A few graphical browsers, notably Opera (Presto) and iCab, also bind [ and ] to walk <link rel="prev"> and <link rel="next"> document relations. Lynx exposes these via its LINK list (default key L) rather than direct bindings.

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