elvish

Development

Use when working with elvish shell internals — completion system, arg-completer, complex-candidate, matcher, complete-getopt, editor API, keybindings, prompts, styled text, language fundamentals, pipelines, modules, or rc.elv configuration. Triggers on: "elvish", "elvish completion", "elvish editor", "elvish arg-completer", "elvish complex-candidate", "elvish styled", "elvish matcher", "elvish complete-getopt", "edit:completion", "edit:complex-candidate", "edit:notify", "edit:match-prefix", "from-json", "rc.elv", "elvish module", "elvish pipeline", "elvish namespace".

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Elvish Shell In-Depth Reference

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

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Keywords	Reference
arg-completer, complex-candidate, matcher, complete-getopt, complete-filename, complete-dirname, filter DSL, completion UI, completion pipeline, CodeSuffix, Display, seed, RawItem, ComplexItem, PlainItem, GenerateFileNames, FilterPrefix, completion mode, smart-start, completion:binding, completion:arg-completer, completion:matcher, adaptArgGeneratorMap, completionStart, quoting pass, cook, dedup	references/completion.md
edit: module, editor API, modes, insert mode, command mode, navigation mode, history mode, histlist, location, lastcmd, instant mode, listing, keybindings, binding table, global-binding, prompts, rprompt, stale prompt, hooks, before-readline, after-readline, after-command, word types, autofix, smart-enter, notify, max-height, Editor struct, cli.App, CodeArea, ComboBox, ListBox	references/editor.md
styled, styled-segment, style transformer, kebab-case, ANSI color, XTerm 256-color, TrueColor, foreground, background, bold, italic, underlined, dim, inverse, blink, ParseStyling, ui.Text, ui.Segment, Styledown, render-styledown, derender-styledown, NO_COLOR, LSCOLORS, color config	references/styling.md
value types, string, number, list, map, pseudo-map, nil, boolean, exception, file, function, variable, scoping, closure, upvalues, expressions, compounding, indexing, output capture, exception capture, braced list, tilde expansion, wildcard expansion, pipeline, value pipeline, byte pipeline, redirection, special commands, var, set, del, fn, if, while, for, try, and, or, coalesce, pragma, namespace, module, use, bareword, quoting, metacharacters	references/language.md
rc.elv, config directory, ~/.config/elvish, module system, use, epm, package manager, runtime module, path module, os module, str module, re module, math module, platform module, unix module, md module, doc module, file module, environment variables, E: namespace, paths, startup order, XDG, db.elv, history store	references/startup-config.md

Quick Guide

How do I write an arg-completer? → references/completion.md
How does the completion pipeline work internally? → references/completion.md
How do I use edit:complex-candidate? → references/completion.md
How do I configure matchers? → references/completion.md
How do I use edit:complete-getopt? → references/completion.md
How do I configure keybindings? → references/editor.md
How do I customize prompts? → references/editor.md
How do editor hooks work? → references/editor.md
How do I use styled text? → references/styling.md
What style transformers are available? → references/styling.md
How do elvish pipelines work? → references/language.md
How do namespaces and modules work? → references/language.md and references/startup-config.md
How do I set up rc.elv? → references/startup-config.md
How do I write a custom module? → references/startup-config.md
How does the filter DSL work in completion mode? → references/completion.md

Cross-Project References

For carapace-specific elvish integration (snippet, value formatting, JSON output, ParseStyling validation), see the carapace-dev skill → references/shell-elvish.md.