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2 total messages Started by Tim Placek Sun, 04 Oct 1992 19:16

#105

Author: Tim Placek
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1992 19:16

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I posted a question about maintaining formatting in scripts ... by snooping around in a
few old script files I have a came across this likely candidate ... I think you can
see how it works ...

   /ON ^WHO * /ECHO $([$CHANNEL_NAME_WIDTH]0) $[10]1 $5-


Can someone please steer me to where in the help files these "hidden" variables are
described as well as the usage of [width] ??   Thanks.

Tim

Re: Answers his own question : )

#110

Author: -=Runaway Daemon=-
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 17:14

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In article <1992Oct4.191616.20479@news.duc.auburn.edu> tplacek@eng.auburn.edu writes:
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>Can someone please steer me to where in the help files these "hidden" variables are
>described as well as the usage of [width] ??   Thanks.
They should be in /help alias special    I'm not sure how much information
is in the older client version help files.  I know it's in the newer help
files for the ircII2.2pre series as I updated those files myself.

The key to this seemingly cryptic location is that in ircII aliases and
variables share much in common.  You'll notice that variables and aliases
have the same restriction on what you can use as characters for the name.
Also note that an alias expands as a variable if you make it a function.
alias blue ^assign function_return 1        
$%blue()  now equals 1.  etc.. (note it's $blue() in newer clients)

The initial screen of help may seem overwhelming but if you start 
poking around you'll find whatever you need.  Scripts that other
people have written are also very helpful.  Just don't try to port
old ircII2.1 scripts to ircII2.2 syntax.  Rewrite the whole thing
from scratch or see if someone has something that will do what you want.

ircII2.2pre* has a very powerful syntax and it's a shame to cripple it with 
old ircII2.1 shortcomings in it's style.  Oh well.. nuff of that.

>
>Tim

	ian

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