If the focused line is from a file connected to an open pipe (the “↻” icon will be next to the file name), a SIGINT will be sent to the child process. Otherwise, lnav will quickly exit. If lnav seems to be stuck in a loop, pressing Ctrl + C three times will trigger an abort exit.

Down a page

Down by half a page

Up a page

Up by half a page

Down a line

Up a line

Left half a page. In the log view, pressing left while at the start of the message text will reveal the shortened source file name for each line. Pressing again will reveal the full path.

Left ten columns

Right half a page

Right ten columns

Top of the view

Next/previous error

Next/previous warning

Next/previous search hit

Next/previous search hit (horizontal)

Next/previous file

Next/previous bookmark

Forward/backward through log messages with a matching “opid” field

Next/previous slow down in the log message rate

Previous/next location in history

Forward/backward 24 hours

(… to 6) Next/previous n’th ten minute of the hour

Previous/next minute

Next/previous day

Forward/backward by the relative time that was last used with the go to command

Focus on the breadcrumb bar

If the bar is currently focused, accept the selected value and drop focus

Drop focus on the breadcrumb bar

Select the crumb to the left. If the first crumb is selected, the selection will wrap around to the last crumb

Accept the current value, which might mean navigating to the value in the view, then selecting the crumb to the right

Select the first crumb

Select the last crumb

Select the next value in the crumb dropdown

Select the previous value in the crumb dropdown

Select the first value in the crumb dropdown

Select the last value in the crumb dropdown

Mark/unmark the top line or focused line when in cursor mode

Mark/unmark the range of lines from the last marked to the top

Mark/unmark the next line after the previously marked

Mark/unmark the previous line

Copy marked lines to the clipboard

Clear marked lines

View/leave builtin help

Return to the previous view/quit

Return to the previous view/quit while matching the top times of the two views

Restore the view that was previously popped with ‘q/Q’

Restore the view that was previously popped with ‘q/Q’ and match the top times of the views

Switch to/from the pretty-printed view of the displayed log or text files

Display the elapsed time from a bookmark to a given line. In the TEXT view, this only works for content that was captured from stdin or a :sh command.

Switch to/from the text file view

Switch to/from the histogram view

Switch to/from the SQL result view

Switch to/from the SQL result view and move to the corresponding in the log_line column

Toggle the display of the log parser results

In the log/text views, focus on the configuration panel for editing filters and examining the list of loaded files. In the SQL result view, cycle through columns to display as bar graphs

Switch to lo-fi mode. The displayed log lines will be dumped to the terminal without any decorations so they can be copied easily.

Toggle word-wrap.

Show/hide the data preview panel that may be opened when entering commands or SQL queries.

Toggle the enabled/disabled state of all filters in the current view.

Toggle the hiding of log message fields. The hidden fields will be replaced with three bullets and highlighted in yellow.

Toggle the cursor mode. Allows moving the focused line instead of keeping it fixed at the top of the current screen.

Pause/unpause loading of new file data.

Reset the current session state. The session state includes things like filters, bookmarks, and hidden fields.

Search for lines matching a regular expression

Open the SQLite Interface to execute SQL statements/queries

Execute an internal command, see Commands for more information

Execute an lnav script located in a format directory

Abort the prompt