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man(1) Profanity XMPP client man(1)

NAME

/help

DESCRIPTION

Help on using Profanity. Passing no arguments list help areas. For command help, optional arguments are shown using square brackets, arguments representing variables rather than a literal name are surrounded by angle brackets. Arguments that may be one of a number of values are separated by a pipe e.g. val1|val2|val3.

SYNOPSIS

/help [<area>|<command>|search_all|search_any] [<search_terms>]

ARGUMENTS

<area>

Summary help for commands in a certain area of functionality.

<command>

Full help for a specific command, for example '/help connect'.

search_all <search_terms>

Search commands for returning matches that contain all of the search terms.

search_any <search_terms>

Search commands for returning matches that contain any of the search terms.

EXAMPLES

/help search_all presence online

/help commands

/help presence

/help who

2023-08-03 0.13.1