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User Guide

This section contains miscellaneous documents on using and configuring the shell and Murex’s numerous features.

Other Reference Material

There are other sections for which are dedicated to Murex’s parser, builtin commands and such like:

Language Guides

Language Tour, which is an introduction into the Murex language.
Rosetta Stone, which is a reference table comparing Bash syntax to Murex’s.
Builtins, for docs on the core builtins.
Syntax, lists tokens and other syntactic sugar supported by Murex’s parser.

Pages

ANSI Constants: Infixed constants that return ANSI escape sequences
Bang Prefix: Bang prefixing to reverse default actions
Code Block Parsing: Overview of how code blocks are parsed
FileRef: How to track what code was loaded and from where
Modules and Packages: An introduction to Murex modules and packages
Murex Named Pipes: A detailed breakdown of named pipes in Murex
Pipeline: Overview of what a “pipeline” is
Reserved Variables: Special variables reserved by Murex
Rosetta Stone: A tabulated list of Bashism’s and their equivalent Murex syntax
Schedulers: Overview of the different schedulers (or ‘run modes’) in Murex
Spellcheck: How to enable inline spellchecking
Terminal Hotkeys: A list of all the terminal hotkeys and their uses
Variable and Config Scoping: How scoping works within Murex
Murex Profile Files: A breakdown of the different files loaded on start up
Murex’s Interactive Shell: What’s different about Murex’s interactive shell?

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