aider/website/docs/commands.md

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Usage	50	Control aider with in-chat commands like /add, /model, etc.

In-chat commands

Aider supports commands from within the chat, which all start with /.

• /add Add files to the chat so GPT can edit them or review them in detail
• /clear Clear the chat history
• /commit Commit edits to the repo made outside the chat (commit message optional)
• /diff Display the diff of the last aider commit
• /drop Remove files from the chat session to free up context space
• /exit Exit the application
• /git Run a git command
• /help Show help about all commands
• /lint Lint and fix provided files or in-chat files if none provided
• /ls List all known files and indicate which are included in the chat session
• /model Switch to a new LLM
• /models Search the list of available models
• /quit Exit the application
• /run Run a shell command and optionally add the output to the chat (alias: !)
• /test Run a shell command and add the output to the chat on non-zero exit code
• /tokens Report on the number of tokens used by the current chat context
• /undo Undo the last git commit if it was done by aider
• /voice Record and transcribe voice input
• /web Use headless selenium to scrape a webpage and add the content to the chat

Entering multi-line chat messages

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Keybindings

The interactive prompt is built with prompt-toolkit which provides emacs and vi keybindings.

Emacs

• 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.

Vi

To use vi/vim keybindings, run aider with the --vim switch.

• Esc : Switch to command mode.
• i : Switch to insert mode.
• a : Move cursor one character to the right and switch to insert mode.
• A : Move cursor to the end of the line and switch to insert mode.
• I : Move cursor to the beginning of the line and switch to insert mode.
• h : Move cursor one character to the left.
• j : Move cursor down one line.
• k : Move cursor up one line.
• l : Move cursor one character to the right.
• w : Move cursor forward one word.
• b : Move cursor backward one word.
• 0 : Move cursor to the beginning of the line.
• $ : Move cursor to the end of the line.
• x : Delete the character under the cursor.
• dd : Delete the current line.
• u : Undo the last change.
• Ctrl-R : Redo the last undone change.