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+======Overview of commands======
+Commands are the way for interacting with the client. They allow various tasks
+to be done - interacting with the remote server, changing client's user
+interface (including, but not limited to managing [[window|windows]] and
+changing [[bind|key bindings]]), [[programming|programming the client]] and
+much more.
+Below is a list of all of the commands grouped by the domain they operate in.
+=====IRC commands=====
+====Channel-related commands====
+|[[invite]]|invite a person to a channel|
+|[[join]]|join a channel|
+|[[kick]]|forcibly remove a person from a channel|
+|[[knock]]|send a message to a channel asking to invite you|
+|[[me]]|perform an action sent to a channel|
+|[[mode]]|change channel modes|
+|[[names]]|retrieve a list of people attending a channel|
+|[[part]]|leave a channel|
+|[[topic]]|set achannel's topic|
+|[[who]]|retrieve information about a channel or a person|
+====IRC operator commands====
+|[[connect_command|connect]]|link to another server|
+|[[deop]]|relinquish your operator privileges|
+|[[die]]|shut down your server|
+|[[kill]]|forcibly remove a person from a server|
+|[[oper]]|gain operator privileges|
+|[[rehash]]|reload irc server's configuration file|
+|[[restart]]|restart your server|
+|[[squit]]|unlink another server|
+|[[wallops]]|send an announcement|
+====Network-specific commands====
+|[[rping]]|check a round-trip-time between you and an Undernet server|
+|[[servlist]]|read a list of IRCnet services|
+|[[squery]]|query an IRCnet service|
+|[[silence]]|add or remove a server-side ignore|
+|[[uping]]|check a round-trip time between you and an Undernet server|
+|[[userip]]|retrieve user's IP address on Undernet and Hybrid servers|
+|[[usrip]]|retrieve user's IP address in old hybrid servers|
+====Sending messages====
+|[[ctcp]]|send request for information to a client|
+|[[dcc]]|send or receive a file or a client-to-client chat offer|
+|[[msg]]|send a message to a person or a channel|
+|[[notice]]|send a notice to a person or a channel|
+|[[ping]]|check a round-trip-time between you and given target|
+====Network-related information====
+|[[admin]]|retrieve administrative whereabouts about a server|
+|[[info_command|info]]|retrieve information about an irc server|
+|[[lusers]]|see how many users are connected to the network|
+|[[map_command|map]]|see a topological map of connected servers|
+|[[motd_command|motd]]|see the Message Of The Day|
+|[[stats]]|ask a server for general purpose information|
+|[[time_command|time]]|see system time of given server|
+|[[trace]]|retrieve information about a route between you and specified server and provide a list of local clients|
+|[[version_command|version]]|retrieve server's irc server software version|
+====Other====
+|[[away]]|mark yourself away|
+|[[describe]]|send an action to an arbitrary target|
+|[[ison]]|check whether people are online in an efficient way|
+|[[links]]|retrieve a list of all servers|
+|[[list]]|list all channels on a network|
+|[[nick]]|change your nick|
+|[[notify_command|notify]]|client interface to the /[[ison]] command|
+|[[quote]]|send a raw message to an irc server|
+|[[userhost_command|userhost]]|retrieve user's hostname|
+|[[wallchops]]|send a message to channel's operators|
+|[[whois]]|retrieve detailed information about a user|
+|[[whowas]]|retrieve [[whois]] information about a user that has already left the server|
+=====Programming=====
+====Control flow====
+|[[break]]|break out from a loop|
+|[[continue]]|move to the next iteration of a loop|
+|[[do]]|a loop that's executed at least once|
+|[[fec]]|iterate all characters in a string|
+|[[fe]]|iterate all words in a string|
+|[[for]]|general purpose loop|
+|[[foreach]]|iterate between items in a structure|
+|[[if]]|conditional statement|
+|[[repeat_command|repeat]]|repeat given command or block an arbitrary number of times|
+|[[return]]|end a procedure and return a value|
+|[[switch]]|conditional statement for multiple possible values|
+|[[unless]]|inverse conditional statement|
+|[[until]]|execute a loop until a condition is true|
+|[[while]]|execute a loop as long as a condition is true|
+====Debugging information====
+|[[abort]]|create a core dump of EPIC process|
+|[[allocdump]]|retrieve a log of all heap memory used by an EPIC process|
+|[[call]]|retrieve a "stack" trace of currently executed alias|
+|[[xdebug_command|xdebug]]|access undocumented debugging features|
+====Functions, commands and hooks====
+|[[alias_command|alias]]|create a command or a function|
+|[[bind]]|assign an action to a key|
+|[[hook]]|throw an [[on hook]] event|
+|[[on]]|execute commands when specific event occurs|
+|[[rbind]]|check which keys are bound to given command|
+|[[shook]]|throw an event for /on|
+|[[stub]]|create a load-on demand [[alias command|alias]] or [[assign]]|
+====External scripting languages====
+|[[perl_command|perl]]||
+|[[ruby command|ruby]]||
+|[[tcl command|tcl]]||
+====Other====
+|[[assign]]|assign a value to a variable|
+|[[beep]]|send **%%^%%G** to the terminal|
+|[[bless]]|extend the scope of a block|
+|[[botmode]]|detach a client operating in "dumb mode" into the background|
+|[[comment]]|insert a comment to script's source|
+|[[defer]]|execute a command when the client is idle|
+|[[dump]]|delete your [[alias command|alias]]es, [[assign]]s and/or [[on]]s|
+|[[echo]]|echo some text to a terminal|
+|[[eval]]|expand and execute a string|
+|[[flush]]||
+|[[input]]|display an input prompt to the user|
+|[[input_char]]|display an input prompt for a single character|
+|[[load]]|load a script from a file|
+|[[local]]|create a local variable|
+|[[package]]|"group" your [[assign]]s, [[alias command|alias]]es and similar with a common package name|
+|[[parsekey]]|execute a [[bind]]-specific function|
+|[[pause]]|perform a non-blocking sleep|
+|[[pop_command|pop]]|remove last word of a variable|
+|[[pretend]]|"pretend" some text was received from a remote server|
+|[[push_command|push]]|append a word to the variable|
+|[[queue]]|schedule command(s) for later execution|
+|[[redirect]]|send a copy of all output to given target|
+|[[say]]|send text to the current channel|
+|[[send]]|send text to current channel or query|
+|[[sendline]]|send a line of text as it would be typed by the user in the input prompt|
+|[[shift command|shift]]|remove the first word off of a variable|
+|[[sleep]]|perform a blocking sleep|
+|[[stack]]|store [[alias command|aliases]], [[assign|variables]], [[on|ons]] and others in a stack|
+|[[subpackage]]|create a branch in current [[package]]|
+|[[timer]]|run a command or a block after some time had elapsed|
+|[[type]]|simulate user keystrokes on the command line|
+|[[unload]]|unload a script packaged by the [[package]] command|
+|[[unshift_command|unshift]]|prepend a word to a variable|
+|[[usleep]]|perform a blocking sleep for given number of microseconds|
+|[[wait]]|wait for completion of a command|
+|[[xecho]]|print some text with more control over where it will appear|
+|[[xeval]]|execute a [[block]] in context of a window or a server|
+|[[xquote]]|send raw text to an arbitrary server|
+|[[xtype]]|simulare raw user keystrokes (without processing of [[bind|binds]]|
+=====Commands with many subcommands=====
+|[[set]]|display or set one of EPIC's internal variables|
+|[[window]]|manipulate your windows|
+=====Server connections=====
+|[[disconnect]]|close your connection with a server|
+|[[hostname]]|get or set your hostname used when connecting to a server|
+|[[ircname]]|alias for [[set realname]]|
+|[[reconnect]]|disconnect from a server and connect again|
+|[[server]]|connect to a server|
+=====Miscellanea=====
+|[[bye]]|alias for /[[quit]]|
+|[[cd]]|perform a chdir(2) call|
+|[[channel_command|channel]]|retrieve information about a channel or [[join]] one|
+|[[clear]]|clear all text from the current window|
+|[[encrypt]]|maintain a list of cipher keys with users or servers|
+|[[exec_command|exec]]|execute an external command|
+|[[exit]]|alias for /[[quit]]|
+|[[ignore]]|ignore messages from given hostmasks|
+|[[lastlog_command|lastlog]]|grep through lines previously sent to your screen|
+|[[license]]|read a software license for the EPIC software|
+|[[log_command|log]]||
+|[[mesg]]|display or set whether other system users can directly write to your terminal|
+|[[note]]||
+|[[query]]|start a private conversation with a person|
+|[[quit]]|exit your EPIC client|
+|[[setenv]]|set an environment variable|
+|[[unclear]]|display text that was once [[clear|cleared]]|
+|[[which_command|which]]|get a full path for a script in your [[set load path|LOAD_PATH]]|