block - temporarily block delivery of events — fish-shell 4.8.1 documentation

# block - temporarily block delivery of events

## Synopsis

    block [(--local | --global)]
    block --erase

## Description

`block` delays delivery of all events triggered by `fish` or the emit, thus delaying the execution of any function registered `--on-event`, `--on-process-exit`, `--on-job-exit`, `--on-variable` and `--on-signal` until after the block is removed.

Event blocks should not be confused with code blocks, which are created with `begin`, `if`, `while` or `for`

Without options, `block` sets up a block that is released automatically at the end of the current function scope.

The following options are available:

-l or --local

  Release the block automatically at the end of the current innermost code block scope.

-g or --global

  Never automatically release the lock.

-e or --erase

  Release global block.

-h or --help

  Display help about using this command.

## Example

    # Create a function that listens for events
    function --on-event foo foo; echo 'foo fired'; end

    # Block the delivery of events
    block -g

    emit foo
    # No output will be produced

    block -e
    # 'foo fired' will now be printed

## Notes

Events are only received from the current fish process as there is no way to send events from one fish process to another.