From 079f3851fe7b4077ad56594936f8181225373224 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dieter Plaetinck Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 23:48:06 +0200 Subject: readme cleanup re: commands vs actions --- README | 16 ++++------------ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index 5529b8f..4f394bd 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -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 ` * `sync_sh ` - 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 ` * `search_reverse ` @@ -163,9 +155,9 @@ The following commands are recognized: - keycmd sets the interactive command buffer to ``. 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 ..` - - use for chaining multiple actions - - remember to quote the actions; one action must come as one parameter +* `chain ..` + - 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 -- cgit v1.2.3