fish

name	fish
description	Use when working with fish shell internals — completion system, complete builtin, commandline builtin, pager, autosuggestions, syntax highlighting, abbreviations, key bindings, editing modes, language fundamentals, variables, functions, job control, startup configuration, or fish helper functions. Triggers on: "fish", "fish completion", "fish complete builtin", "fish commandline", "fish pager", "fish autosuggestion", "fish abbreviation", "fish key binding", "fish config", "fish_function_path", "fish_complete_path", "__fish_seen_subcommand_from", "__fish_contains_opt", "fish_mode_prompt", "fish_config", "conf.d", "argparse", "string builtin", "set builtin", "universal variable", "wrap completions", "NO_SPACE", "REPLACES_TOKEN".
user-invocable	true

Fish Shell In-Depth Reference

Comprehensive reference for fish shell internals, with emphasis on the completion system and how external tools hook into it.

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complete, complete builtin, commandline, completion function, autoloading, conditionals, wrapping, completion output format, NO_SPACE, REPLACES_TOKEN, AUTO_SPACE, DONT_ESCAPE, DONT_SORT, SUPPRESS_PAGER_PREFIX, Completion struct, CompletionReceiver, sort_and_prioritize, fuzzy match, __fish_seen_subcommand_from, __fish_contains_opt, __fish_complete_directories, __fish_complete_path, __fish_print_hostnames, fish_complete_path, -C/--do-complete, --escape, --keep-order, --no-files, --force-files, --require-parameter, --exclusive, --wraps, --condition, --arguments, --old-option, --short-option, --long-option, option styles, completion insertion, token replacement, prefix suppression, dedup, completion engine, perform_for_commandline_impl, complete_cmd, complete_param_expand, wildcard_complete, wrap chain, WRAPPER_MAP