aider-mirror/docs/commands.md

Commands

• /help: Show help about all commands
• /exit: Exit the application

context management

• /add <file>: Add matching files to the chat session using glob patterns
• /drop <file>: Remove matching files from the chat session
• /web <url>: Add the contents of a webpage to the chat
• /clear: Clear the chat history
• /ls: List all known files and those included in the chat session
• /tokens: Report on the number of tokens used by the current chat context

git

• /undo: Undo the last git commit if it was done by aider
• /diff: Display the diff of the last aider commit
• /commit <message>: Commit edits to the repo made outside the chat (commit message optional)
• /git <command>: Run a git command

other

• /run <command>: Run a shell command and optionally add the output to the chat, or use !<command>.
• /test <command>: Like run, but automatically adds the output to the chat on non-zero exit codes.
• /voice: Speak to aider to request code changes with your voice.

Prompt Toolkit defaults

The interactive prompt is built with prompt-toolkit which provides a lot of Emacs and Vi-style keyboard. Some emacs bindings you may find useful are

• Ctrl-A : Move cursor to the start of the line.
• Ctrl-B : Move cursor back one character.
• Ctrl-D : Delete the character under the cursor.
• Ctrl-E : Move cursor to the end of the line.
• Ctrl-F : Move cursor forward one character.
• Ctrl-K : Delete from the cursor to the end of the line.
• Ctrl-L : Clear the screen.
• Ctrl-N : Move down to the next history entry.
• Ctrl-P : Move up to the previous history entry.
• Ctrl-R : Reverse search in command history.

Note: aider currently exits vi normal mode after a single command, (maybe something to do with the esc keybinding?). Feel free to investigate and make a PR if you would like to see it fully supported.

Prompt toolkit also does not provide clear documentation on the bindings they support - maybe you can take aider and help them out with that and we can then link to the authoritative docs.