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Alias "alias" #96867 06/09/04 01:05 PM
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 53 Z Zonk OP Babel fish
OP Zonk Babel fish Z Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 53	This is not really a bug imo, just wanted to know if theres a reason for this kinda strange behaviour.. If I add alias alias halt in remote, and i then try /alias bla blub its not working -> nothing is happening thats fine so far but then i try the same thingie in aliases, where I add alias halt This doesnt stop /alias bla blub from working It treats it like im doing /!alias bla blub any specific reason for that? [Tested on XP mIRC 6.16]

Re: Alias "alias" #96868 06/09/04 02:43 PM
Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 540 A Armada Fjord artisan
Armada Fjord artisan A Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 540	Quote: /alias [filename] <aliasname> <command> Adds, removes, replaces aliases; it is limited to single line aliases and will not affect mutiple line definitions. /alias /moo /me moos! This will replace the first matching alias with the new command. To remove an existing aliases: /alias /moo To add an alias to a specific alias file, you would use: /alias moo.txt /moo /me moos! If you don't specify a filename, it defaults to using the first filename in which the alias exists, or if it doesn't exist then it uses the first loaded aliases file. Doesnt work cause its a internal mirc command

Re: Alias "alias" #96869 06/09/04 05:21 PM
Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 101 Athens, Greece D dr_Eamer Vogon poet
dr_Eamer Vogon poet D Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 101 Athens, Greece	Aliases (unlike custom identifiers) may override mirc internal commands! That's why there's a '!' command prefix! I confirm the strange behaviour. "Alias alias" works in the remotes section but not in the aliases. Last edited by dr_Eamer; 06/09/04 05:22 PM. Maybe I wake up one day to notice that all my life was just a dream!

Re: Alias "alias" #96870 07/09/04 06:07 AM
Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 50 C coolspot Babel fish
coolspot Babel fish C Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 50	I don't think '!' is what tells mIRC to overwrite an internal command, I believe it was \ and .

Re: Alias "alias" #96871 07/09/04 06:11 AM
Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 540 A Armada Fjord artisan
Armada Fjord artisan A Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 540	"." is a fullstop it just stops you from seeing things

Re: Alias "alias" #96872 07/09/04 10:43 AM
Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 101 Athens, Greece D dr_Eamer Vogon poet
dr_Eamer Vogon poet D Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 101 Athens, Greece	I didn't mean that. An aliased command always overrides the mIRC built-in command EXCEPT IF you use the ! command prefix. eg. alias linesep { echo This is the alias! } /linesep will echo "This is the alias!" /!linesep will echo the line separator! So what I meant to say was that aliases override mIRC commands and that's why we have the '!' command prefix if we want to avoid this. Last edited by dr_Eamer; 07/09/04 10:47 AM. Maybe I wake up one day to notice that all my life was just a dream!

Re: Alias "alias" #96873 07/09/04 04:26 PM
Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 2,327 T tidy_trax Hoopy frood
tidy_trax Hoopy frood T Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 2,327	You're thinking of identifiers, which works backwards to commands: alias time { return the time is $time } //echo -a $time //echo -a $.time //echo -a $/time New username: hixxy

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