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author | Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@plaetinck.be> | 2009-05-29 23:48:06 +0200 |
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committer | Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@plaetinck.be> | 2009-05-29 23:48:06 +0200 |
commit | 079f3851fe7b4077ad56594936f8181225373224 (patch) | |
tree | 83cd4b1d6fa507ccba48bb1e64b65752482dced3 /README | |
parent | decba45cb93620548384b8bf681361d4c1bb9550 (diff) |
readme cleanup re: commands vs actions
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
-rw-r--r-- | README | 16 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 12 deletions
@@ -83,14 +83,6 @@ When uzbl forks a new instance (eg "open in new window") it will use the same co If you made changes to the configuration at runtime, these are not pased on to the child. ### COMMAND SYNTAX -Commands are used for: - -* creating keybindings -* altering variables -* getting the values of variables -* running actions -* setting the input buffer - Uzbl will read commands via standard input, named fifo pipe (if `fifo_dir` is set) and IPC socket (when `socket_dir` is set). For convenience, uzbl can also be instructed to read commands from a file on startup by using the `-c` option. Indeed, the config file is nothing more than a list of commands. @@ -151,7 +143,7 @@ The following commands are recognized: * `sync_spawn <executable> <additional args>` * `sync_sh <command>` - these are synchronous variants of `spawn` and `sh`, which means uzbl will wait for them to return - - you should only need to use these manually if you want to use a chain action in a handler that wants output from the command it runs + - you should only need to use these manually if you want to use a chain command in a handler that wants output from the command it runs * `exit` * `search <string>` * `search_reverse <string>` @@ -163,9 +155,9 @@ The following commands are recognized: - keycmd sets the interactive command buffer to `<string>`. If the given string is a valid binding, it will execute. `Keycmd_nl` is like `keycmd`, but it also emulates a press of return, causing bindings with a parameter to execute. For example, `keycmd_nl o google.com` would load the said url if you have a binding like `bind o _ = uri %s`. * `keycmd_bs` - erase (backspace) one character from the command buffer -* `chain <action> <action> ..` - - use for chaining multiple actions - - remember to quote the actions; one action must come as one parameter +* `chain <command> <command> ..` + - use for chaining multiple commands + - remember to quote the commands; one command must come as one parameter - if you use `chain` with a handler script which must return some output (such as a cookie handler -- uzbl will wait for and use its output), use sync_spawn or sync_sh instead of spawn or sh in the command that should give the output |