# The &lilypond; Documentation Browser

&frescobaldi; has a built-in browser for &lilypond;'s extensive documentation, accessible by clicking on its tab at the right or by pressing Meta+Alt+D. The browser can display locally installed documentation (e.g. installed in a local directory or via your operating system distribution) or the documentation at the &lilypond; website.

&frescobaldi; first searches the &lilypond; documentation on the local system; if it isn't found the documentation pages from lilypond.org/doc are shown. You can configure the URL or path to the &lilypond; documentation under &menu.settings.paths;. If you configure a local path, specify it including the `index.html` filename.

The documentation browser works just like a normal browser. The Home button brings up the documentation start page. By right-clicking the browser view you can open any page in your default browser. By right-clicking a link in the browser view you can open the link in a new browser or other suitable application.

You can also get context-sensitive help by right-clicking a &lilypond; statement in the text editor. The &lilypond; Help context submenu then displays the relevant entries both from the Learning Manual and the Notation Reference.

The other small buttons correspond with the so-called "rellinks" (related links) in the &lilypond; documentation. This way you can easily navigate the documentation or jump to the table of contents, etcetera. (Different versions of the &lilypond; documentation have subtle differences in the navigation.)

If you click an image of music that links to a &lilypond; snippet, the snippet is shown in a read-only editor view with LilyPond syntax highlighting.

## Keyboard shortcuts

(Click once in the browser view to give it the keyboard focus, by default the keyboard focus remains in the text editor when the browser is opened.)

BackSpace | Go back a page in the browser view.
/ | Start entering a short search phrase to search for in the current page.
ESC | Quit entering a search phrase.
Enter | When in the search phrase entry, finds the next occurence.
Tab | Navigate the links in the page.
Arrows / PgUp / PgDn | Scroll the page or move the cursor.