CLI Getting Started Completions Source

ed completions source

Prints the fallback line that loads one completion script directly.

ed completions source [--shell <zsh|bash|fish>] [--json]

Name	Type / values	Default	What it does
--shell <shell>	zsh, bash or fish	zsh	Select the completion script.
--json	flag	off	Emit shell and source in one JSON object.

Plain output is ready to paste into the selected shell's startup file:

$ ed completions source
source $HOME/.local/share/zsh/site-functions/_ed

JSON keeps the selected shell explicit:

{
  "shell": "fish",
  "source": "source $HOME/.config/fish/completions/ed.fish"
}

The path comes from the same shared operation used by the Copy button in Terminal settings. It prefers the recorded installed script and otherwise prints the line for the directory where installation would place it. An unsupported shell exits 3 without output.

Where to go next

• ed completions install, write the scripts
• Getting started with ed, the rest of this group
• All ed commands