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	<script src="https://rawgit.com/jeresig/jquery.hotkeys/master/jquery.hotkeys.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

	<script>
	jQuery(document).ready(function(){

		// where list1 is your grid id
		$(document).bind('keydown', 'e', function assets() {
			$('#edit_list1').click();
			return false;
		});

	});
	</script>

--- COMPLETE CODE --

<?php
/**
 * PHP Grid Component
 *
 * @author Abu Ghufran <gridphp@gmail.com> - http://www.phpgrid.org
 * @version 1.5.2
 * @license: see license.txt included in package
 */

include_once("../../config.php");

mysql_connect(PHPGRID_DBHOST, PHPGRID_DBUSER, PHPGRID_DBPASS);
mysql_select_db(PHPGRID_DBNAME);

include(PHPGRID_LIBPATH."inc/jqgrid_dist.php");

$g = new jqgrid();
$grid["caption"] = "Sample Grid";
$grid["autowidth"] = true;

$g->set_options($grid);

$g->table = "clients";

$out = $g->render("list1");
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html>
<head>
	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="../../lib/js/themes/redmond/jquery-ui.custom.css"></link>
	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="../../lib/js/jqgrid/css/ui.jqgrid.css"></link>

	<script src="../../lib/js/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
	<script src="../../lib/js/jqgrid/js/i18n/grid.locale-en.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
	<script src="../../lib/js/jqgrid/js/jquery.jqGrid.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
	<script src="../../lib/js/themes/jquery-ui.custom.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
	<script src="https://rawgit.com/jeresig/jquery.hotkeys/master/jquery.hotkeys.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

	<script>
	jQuery(document).ready(function(){

		// where list1 is your grid id
		$(document).bind('keydown', 'e', function assets() {
			$('#edit_list1').click();
			return false;
		});

	});
	</script>

</head>
<body>
	<div>
	<?php echo $out?>
	</div>


</body>
</html>