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\section for for - perform a set of commands multiple times.
\subsection for-synopsis Synopsis
-<tt>for VARNAME in [VALUES...]; COMMANDS...; end</tt>
+\fish{synopsis}
+for VARNAME in [VALUES...]; COMMANDS...; end
+\endfish
\subsection for-description Description
-<tt>for</tt> is a loop construct. It will perform the commands specified by
-\c COMMANDS multiple times. On each iteration, the environment variable specified by
-\c VARNAME is assigned a new value from \c VALUES. If \c VALUES is empty, \c COMMANDS will
-not be executed at all.
-\subsection for-example Example
-
-The command
+`for` is a loop construct. It will perform the commands specified by `COMMANDS` multiple times. On each iteration, the local variable specified by `VARNAME` is assigned a new value from `VALUES`. If `VALUES` is empty, `COMMANDS` will not be executed at all.
-<tt>for i in foo bar baz; echo $i; end</tt>
+\subsection for-example Example
-would output:
+\fish
+for i in foo bar baz; echo $i; end
-<pre>
+# would output:
foo
bar
baz
-</pre>
-
+\endfish