oil
Installation
SKILL.md
Oil Shell In-Depth Reference
Comprehensive reference for Oil shell (OSH/YSH) internals, with emphasis on the completion system and how external tools hook into it.
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| Keywords | Reference |
|---|---|
| complete, compgen, compopt, compadjust, compexport, COMPREPLY, COMP_ARGV, COMP_WORDS, COMP_CWORD, COMP_LINE, COMP_POINT, COMP_WORDBREAKS, compspec, completion function, exit status 124, bash-completion, quoting responsibility, argv entries, parser as library, OILS_COMP_UI, NiceDisplay, MinimalDisplay, headless mode, FANOS, glob pattern specs, shell language completion | references/completion.md |
| Readline, .inputrc, key binding, editing mode, emacs, vi, completion display, NiceDisplay, MinimalDisplay, horizontal-scroll-mode, prompt, PS1, PS2, InteractiveLineReader, history expansion, alias handling, parser re-invocation, ANSI escape codes, description display | references/line-editing.md |
| quoting, single quotes, double quotes, ANSI-C quoting, YSH strings, r'...', word splitting, IFS, simple word evaluation, parameter expansion, type model, tilde expansion, command substitution, arithmetic expansion, globbing, extended globs, brace expansion, dashglob, nullglob, strict_tilde, process substitution | references/quoting-expansion.md |
| execution, pipeline, lastpipe, subshell, fork, exec, process group, job control, signal, trap, DEBUG trap, ERR trap, EXIT trap, RETURN trap, PIPESTATUS, pipefail, errexit, strict:all, xtrace, xtrace_rich, SHX variables, interpreter state, dynamic scope, noforklast | references/execution.md |
| startup, oshrc, yshrc, oshrc.d, yshrc.d, configuration, OILS_HIJACK_SHEBANG, OILS_COMP_UI, OSH_DEBUG_DIR, shell options, shopt, strict:all, ysh:upgrade, ysh:all, --norc, --rcfile, --rcdir, --headless, --eval, --debug-file, PS1 inheritance | references/startup-config.md |