profanity-alias(1)

profanity-alias1

Usage

/alias list

/alias add <name> <value>

/alias remove <name>

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

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.