I believe it would be great if /timer had a switch that would cause its command not to be evaluated upon execution, so that scripts can pass arbitrary text with the command (for example a message line from IRC), without having to worry about escaping identifiers/variables/etcetera.

For example, from the commandline,

Code:
/timer -n 1 1 echo $pi

would echo "$pi" rather than "3.14..."

I'm aware of the workarounds, but those are all awfully inconvenient.

Saturn, QuakeNet staff