SlashCommand Reference
/comment
Add a text comment into the current window.
Usage: /comment [text]
The text after /comment is not processed and will be posted as-is.
/connect
Change remote for current window.
Usage:
connect [remote]
/connect [remote]
/cr
Change remote for current window (alias for /connect).
/clear
Clear all commands from the current window.
Usage:
clear
/clear
Both with and without the slash are allowed. Clear takes no arguments.
/codeview
View a text file inline using rich native UI. Includes syntax highlighting and code folding.
Usage:
/codeview [filename]
codeview [filename]
[lang=javascript] codeview [filename]
[lang=json] codeview hello.json
Both with and without the slash are allowed. Filename resolves against the current remote and current working directory.
/codeedit
View and edit a text file inline using rich native UI. Includes syntax highlighting, code folding, and completion.
Usage:
/codeedit [filename]
codeedit [filename]
[lang=javascript] codeedit [filename]
[lang=json] codeedit hello.json
Both with and without the slash are allowed. Filename resolves against the current remote and current working directory. Once you are editing, you can save the file using Cmd-S. Closing the editor (using Cmd-D) will prevent future saves (and shrink the editor to fit the current size of the content).
/signal
Send a signal to a running command.
Usage: /signal [line-arg] [signame]
[line-arg] can be a line number or line id.
[signame] is the name of a signal. e.g. KILL, INT, HUP, TERM, etc. Can also prefix with SIG (e.g. SIGKILL).
You can also specify a signal by number (e.g. /signal [line-arg] 9).
/session
Commands that change or modify the Prompt session. The bare command will switch the session.
Usage: /session [session-arg]
[session-arg] can be a session number, name, id, or relative number.
/session:open
Creates a new session.
Usage: /session:open [name=name]
A name can be passed to set the session’s name.
/session:purge
Deletes a session. This will call purge on all of the screens (tabs) within the session. All command history and output will be completely deleted. This will also stop web-sharing of all the session’s screens.
Usage: /session:purge [sessionid]
If sessionid is not specified will purge the current session.
/session:archive
Archives a session.
Usage: /session:archive [sessionid] [0|1]
With no arguments will archive the current session. Otherwise a session id can be specified to archive. The second argument, if “0” means the session should be unarchived.
/session:showall
Show all sessions (including archived ones).
/session:show
Show metadata about current session.
/session:set
Usage: /session:set [name=name]
One option is supported: name. It sets the name of the session.
/screen
Commands that change or modify the Prompt screen (tab). The bare command will switch the screen (tab).
Usage: /screen [screen-arg]
[screen-arg] can be a screen number, name, id, or relative number.
/screen:open
Creates a new screen
Usage: /screen:open
/screen:archive
Hides a screen (tab). Retains output and history.
Usage: /screen:archive [screenid] [0|1]
With no arguments will archive the current screen (tab). Otherwise a screen id can be specified to archive. The second argument, if “0” means the screen should be unarchived.
/screen:purge
Deletes the current screen (tab). Purges all output and history. Will also stop web-sharing.
To purge a non-active screen, pass the screen-id as the first argument.
/screen:webshare
Usage:
/screen:webshare
/screen:webshare 0
Starts/stops screen web sharing. The first argument can be “1” to start or “0” to stop (defaults to “1”).
/screen:set
Updates screen parameters
Usage:
/screen:set [name=name] [tabcolor=color] [tabicon=icon]
/screen:set [anchor=anchor] [focus=focus] [line=line]
Options:
name- set the name of the screen in the tab bartabcolor- set the color of the tabtabicon- set the icon of the tabanchor- sets the current scroll anchor position (used by client)focus- sets the focus type for the screen (used by client) (“input” or “cmd”)line- sets the currently selected linesharename- sets the sharename for web sharing
/screen:showall
Show all screens in the current session (including archived screens).
/screen:reset
Resets the screen by re-initializing all remotes.
/screen:resize
Tells the backend the new size of the screen. This size is used to change the terminal size for running commands (SIGWINCH).
/remote
Commands that create, manage, or update remotes (connections). Note that all /remote commands can also be accessed using /connection.
/remote:show
Will open the remote info window for the current remote
Usage: /remote:show
/remote:showall
Will open an info window showing information about all of the registered remotes
Usage: /remote:showall
/remote:new
Will create a new remote. Arguments can be passed to create the remote completely from the command-line, or if visual=1 is passed it will open the create remote info window.
Usage: /remote:new [user@host] [visual=1] [sudo=1] [port=portnum] [alias=alias] [connectmode=connectmode] [autoinstall=1] [key=ssh-key-file] [password=ssh-password]
/remote:archive
Archives the current remote
Usage: /remote:archive
/remote:set
Updates remote parameters
/remote:disconnect
Disconnects the current remote.
Usage: /remote:disconnect [force=1]
If force=1 is passed it will force the remote to be disconnected even if there are running commnads. The commands will be passed SIGHUP.
/remote:connect
Connects the current remote
/remote:install
Installs the latest version of mshell to the remote.
/remote:installcancel
Cancels an install if it is hanging
/reset
Resets the current remote state back to defaults.
Usage:
reset
/reset
The remote will re-run a login (e.g. .bashrc or .bash_profile) and reset the remote state (cwd, environment, functions, etc.) to match the initial login state. This can be useful to run if you make changes to your bash initialization files and want those changes to be picked up.
/line
Updates lines in the current window.
/line:show
Shows metadata for the given line.
Usage: /line:show [line-arg]
[line-arg] can be a line number or line id.
/line:star
Stars the given line
Usage: /line:star [line-arg] [star-val]
[line-arg] can be a line number or line id. [star-val] defaults to 1, but can be set to 0-5.
/line:set
Updates line settings
Usage: /line:set [line-arg] [renderer=renderer]
[line-arg] can be a line number or line id. One argument, sets the renderer for the given line. Empty renderer will default to “terminal”.
/line:purge
Deletes the line from the screen and from history (including output).
Usage: /line:purge [line-arg]
/line:archive
Archives (hides) the line. Remains in history (can be unarchived by passing “0” as the 2nd argument).
Usage:
/line:archive [line-arg]
/line:archive [line-arg] [1|0]
/line:view
Switches to the given session, screen, and line. Scrolls UI to the given line.
Usage: /line:view [session] [screen] [line]
/line:setheight
Stores the height of the line. For terminals this is the number of “rows”. For renderers it is the pixel height.
Usage: /line:setheight [line-arg] [height]
/client
/client:show
Shows client version information and settings
/client:set
Update client settings, currently only supports termfont size. This will update the font size used in the terminal, can be set from 8-15 (px).
Usage: /client:set termfontsize=10
/telemetry
Commands that deal with client telemetry.
/telemetry:on
Turn telemetry on
/telemetry:off
Turn telemetry off
/telemetry:send
Force a send of current telemetry to server
/telemetry:show
Show current telemetry (on/off) setting.
/bookmarks
Commands that effect bookmarks
/bookmarks:set
Add a bookmark.
/bookmarks:delete
Remove a bookmark.
Other Internal Commands
/_killserver
Kills the local prompt server (and restarts it). Used for debugging.
/_compgen
Handles command completion.
/_history
Handles history window.
/run
Runs a command