Alias "alias" - mIRC Discussion Forums

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]

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

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.

I don't think '!' is what tells mIRC to overwrite an internal command, I believe it was \ and .

"." is a fullstop it just stops you from seeing things

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.

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