man(1)

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✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie, you're reading man(1) — the Profanity XMPP client manual — and this particular page is all about /help, the Profanity /help command itself. yes, the help command has help. iconic behaviour honestly 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

It's help on using Profanity. that's it, that's the whole vibe.

Pass no arguments at all and it just lists out the help areas for you — like a little menu of everything you could ask about 🫶

But here's the ✨grammar✨ you need to speak fluent /help, no cap:

  • Optional arguments are shown using square brackets — so [like this] means "you can include this, or you can simply not, your call bestie"
  • Arguments that represent variables rather than a literal name get wrapped in angle brackets — <like-this>
  • Arguments that can be one of a number of values are separated by a pipe, e.g. val1|val2|val3

so when you see something like <area>|<command>|search_all|search_any, that's not a command name, that's a choose your own adventure situation 😌

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

/help [<area>|<command>|search_all|search_any] [<search_terms>]

💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

  • <area> — summary help for all the commands that live in a certain area of functionality. the greatest-hits version, basically ✨
  • <command> — full, complete, un-cut help for one specific command. like for example /help connect. the whole tea, nothing held back 💅
  • search_all <search_terms> — searches through commands and returns the matches that contain all of the search terms you gave it. every single term. all of them. the strict bestie 🎀
  • search_any <search_terms> — searches through commands and returns the matches that contain any of the search terms you gave it. just one hit is enough to count. the chill bestie 🌈

⭐ EXAMPLES ⭐

look at her go 👑

/help search_all presence online
/help commands
/help presence
/help who

👑 ok final sign-off 👑

fr fr that's the whole page, and just so you have receipts: this is from Profanity XMPP client, version 0.18.2, dated 2026-06-08, and it lives in the man(1) manual. go forth and /help responsibly, bestie 🫶💖✨

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