profanity - Man Page

profanity [-vh] [-l level] [-a account]

Profanity is a simple lightweight console based XMPP chat client. Its emphasis is on having a simple and configurable command driven UI, see the homepage at:

<https://profanity-im.github.io>

-v,  --version

Show version and build information.

-h,  --help

Show help on command line arguments.

-a,  --account ACCOUNT

Auto connect to an account on startup, ACCOUNT must be an existing account.

-c,  --config

Use an alternative config file.

-l,  --log LEVEL

Set the logging level, LEVEL may be set to DEBUG, INFO (the default), WARN or ERROR.

-f,  --logfile

Specify a different logfile

-t,  --theme THEME

Specify which theme to use. THEME must be one of the themes installed in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/profanity/themes

Tab,  Shift+Tab

Tab completion next, previous.  Works for commands, nicks and quotes (when input line starts with >).

ALT+1..Alt-0 or F1..F10

Choose window 1..10.

ALT+q..Alt-p (in QWERTY layout)

Choose window 11..20.

ALT+LEFT

Choose previous chat window.

ALT+RIGHT

Choose next chat window.

PAGEUP

Page the active window up.

PAGEDOWN

Page the active window down.

ALT+PAGEUP

Page the occupants or roster panel up.

ALT+PAGEDOWN

Page the occupants or roster panel down.

ALT+a

Jump to the next unread window.

ALT+v

Mark current window for later reading with an attention flag.

ALT+m

Switch between windows marked with the attention flag.

ALT+c

Run external editor (see profanity-editor(1)) for current input line.

CTRL+DOWN

Store current input line in history but do not execute it.

Note: Profanity is using GNU Readline library to handle input so default configuration file ~/.inputrc affects operation. In addition to that $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/profanity/inputrc is read after all default keybindigs are set so one can override or add settings there. For reference, see Readline documentation: info readline "Command Line Editing" "Readline Init File" "Readline Init File Syntax" and the list of available Profanity commands in inputwin.c. Standard Readline keybindings are supported, including C-r for interactive history search and C-x C-r for reloading inputrc without restart.

The user guide can be found at <https://profanity-im.github.io/userguide.html>.

Profanity itself has a lot of built-in help. Check the /help command for more information.  Type "/help help" for information on how to use help itself.  Profanity ships with one man page for each built-in command, e.g. there is profanity-account(1) for /account.

Configuration for Profanity is stored in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/profanity/profrc , details on commands for configuring Profanity can be found at <https://profanity-im.github.io/reference.html> or the respective built-in help or man pages.

Bugs can either be reported by raising an issue at the Github issue tracker:

<https://github.com/profanity-im/profanity/issues>

or to the mailing list at:

<https://lists.notraces.net/mailman/listinfo/profanity>

Copyright (C) 2012 - 2019 James Booth <boothj5web@gmail.com>. Copyright (C) 2019 - 2022 Michael Vetter <jubalh@iodoru.com>. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Profanity was created by James Booth <boothj5web@gmail.com> with many contributions from others, see the full list at: <https://github.com/profanity-im/profanity/graphs/contributors>