carta
profanity-alias(1)

profanity-alias1

Overview

Add, remove or list command aliases.

Arguments

list

List all aliases.

add <name> <value>

Add a new command alias. The alias name must not contain any space characters.

remove <name>

Remove a command alias.

Examples

/alias add friends /who online friends

/alias add /q /quit

/alias add urg /msg [email protected] [URGENT]

/alias add afk /status set away "Away From Keyboard"

/alias remove q

/alias list

History

  • Arch Linux 2026-11-01: the text shown here
  • Debian 13 (Trixie)
  • Debian 12 (Bookworm)
  • Debian 11 (Bullseye)

From profanity 1:0.19.0-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Also shipped by profanity-gtk. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.