commandline(1) fish commandline(1)
NAME
commandline - set or get the current commandline buffer
Synopsis
commandline [OPTIONS] [CMD]
Description
o CMD is the new value of the commandline. If unspecified, the current
value of the commandline is written to standard output. All output
from the commandline builtin is escaped, i.e. quotes are removed,
backslash escapes are expanded, etc..
The following switches change what the commandline builtin does
o -C or --cursor set or get the current cursor position, not the
contents of the buffer. If no argument is given, the current cursor
position is printed, otherwise the argument is interpreted as the new
cursor position.
o -f or --function inject readline functions into the reader. This
option can not be combined with any other option. It will cause any
additional arguments to be interpreted as readline functions, and
these functions will be injected into the reader, so that they will
be returned to the reader before any additional actual key presses
are read.
The following switches change the way commandline updates the
commandline buffer
o -a or --append do not remove the current commandline, append the
specified string at the end of it
o -i or --insert do not remove the current commandline, insert the
specified string at the current cursor position
o -r or --replace remove the current commandline and replace it with
the specified string (default)
The following switches change what part of the commandline is printed
or updated
o -b or --current-buffer select the entire buffer (default)
o -j or --current-job select the current job
o -p or --current-process select the current process
o -t or --current-token select the current token.
The following switch changes the way commandline prints the current
commandline buffer
o -c or --cut-at-cursor only print selection up until the current
cursor position
o -o or --tokenize tokenize the selection and print one string-type
token per line
If commandline is called during a call to complete a given string using
complete -C STRING, commandline will consider the specified string to
be the current contents of the commandline.
Example
commandline -j $history[3]
replaces the job under the cursor with the third item from the
commandline history.
Version 1.23.1 8 Mar 2009 commandline(1)
fish 1.23.1 - Generated Sun Mar 8 13:55:36 CDT 2009