profanity-help(1)

profanity-help1

Usage

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

Overview

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.

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

Releases

4 releases since Debian 11 (Bullseye); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 11
  2. 12
  3. 13
  4. Arch

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.