fish-shell/doc_src/abbr.txt
David Adam a7bab7b18b abbr/web_config: support space-delimited abbreviations
Support for space-delimited abbreviations was added to the expansion
parser in fbade198; this commit extends that support to the user-facing
tools, and documents the space-separated behaviour. Equals-delimited
abbreviations are expected to be removed before the next release.

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\section abbr abbr - manage fish abbreviations
\subsection abbr-synopsis Synopsis
\fish{synopsis}
abbr -a word="phrase"
abbr -s
abbr -l
abbr -r word
\endfish
\subsection abbr-description Description
`abbr` manipulates the list of abbreviations that fish will expand.
Abbreviations are user-defined character sequences or words that are replaced with longer phrases after they are entered. For example, a frequently-run command such as `git checkout` can be abbreviated to `gco`. After entering `gco` and pressing @key{Space} or @key{Enter}, the full text `git checkout` will appear in the command line.
Abbreviations are stored, by default, in a universal variable.
The following parameters are available:
- `-a WORD PHRASE` or `--add WORD PHRASE` Adds a new abbreviation, where WORD will be expanded to PHRASE.
- `-s` or `--show` Show all abbreviated words and their expanded phrases in a manner suitable for export and import.
- `-l` or `--list` Lists all abbreviated words.
- `-r WORD` or `--remove WORD` Remove the abbreviation WORD.
\subsection abbr-example Examples
\fish
abbr -a gco git checkout
\endfish
Add a new abbreviation where `gco` will be replaced with `git checkout`.
\fish
abbr -r gco
\endfish
Remove the `gco` abbreviation.
\fish
ssh another_host abbr -s | source
\endfish
Import the abbreviations defined on another_host over SSH.