• Introduction
• Editing in Bash mode
• Completions
• File marking
• Parse popup
• Key bindings
• Script execution
• Known problems
• License and Disclaimer

Introduction

• syntax coloring
• keywords completion
• electric completion of the flow control structures (like if, for, while etc.)
• functions marking
• execution of the script from Alpha. The script is sent to the Mac OS X Terminal application for execution.

Editing in Bash mode

• if the file has a .bash extension, it will automatically be opened in Bash mode.
• if the first line of the file is

  #!/bin/bash
  

  or any other path ending with the word "bash", it will also automatically be opened in Bash mode.
• you can manually select Bourne Shell mode from the Modes popup (🄼) located in the control bar of the document window.

Completions

• you can type the first letters of a keyword (like getopts, builtin, declare etc.) and hit the completion key (usually F1 or ⌃-Tab). Alpha will complete the word automatically.
• for the flow control keywords, you can hit the completion key just after the word and Alpha will insert a complete template for the corresponding structure. For instance: type "if" followed by the completion key in order to insert

  if * ; then
  	*
  fi
  

  where the asterisk denotes an insertion bullet. You move from an insertion bullet to the next one with the Tabulation key.

File marking

• the section headers, i-e lines that start with '### ' or '#### '.
• the case | for | if | until | while blocks (unless the preference 'Mark Headers Only' is set ot 1).

Parse popup

foo () {
	echo bar
}

function foo {
	echo bar
}

Key bindings

• Ctrl-T lets you switch to the Terminal application.
• Ctrl-X lets you execute the current window. See the Script execution section.

Script execution

Known problems

License and Disclaimer

• Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
• Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
• Neither the name of Bernard Desgraupes nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.