Aliases and Quickslot Shortcuts
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Aliases
The alias command consists of two parts, the ID and the TEXT. The ID is always preceded by a ;
- The general structure of the command is:
/alias ;ID TEXT
An example:
- Type in:
/alias ;x Hello World
- Now type in:
;x
- Result:
[Say]Bob says: 'Hello World'
Multiple aliases may be strung together: /alias ;h Hello /alias ;w World /alias ;hw ;h ;w
- hw
[Say]Bob says: 'Hello World' See post 'Simple Examples' further below for more on this
If one of the under-alias is changed the top-alias is also altered: /alias ;w Walter
- hw
[Say]Bob says: 'Hello Walter'
Emotes and aliases A single command or emote may be incorporated into an alias at the beginning of the TEXT. Any command not in the beginning will be rendered as plain text. Text following an emote will, as usual, replace the standard emote message. /alias ;f /flirt
- f
Other player Sue is targeted Bob flirts with Sue /alias ;joey says: How u' doin'? /alias ;fj ;f ;joey
- fj
Performs flirt emote Bob says: How u' doin'? Sue is not mentioned as she would be in the standard emote /alias ;fd /flirt Lets dance /dance
- fd
Bob Lets dance /dance Performs flirt emote but displays '/dance' as part of the message in chat
Chat and aliases You can use aliases to send /tells to a specific person: /alias ;ts /t Sue
- ts Hi!
[Tell]Bob tells Sue: 'Hi!'
It is possible to create /alias that automatically sends to a specified channel, while the chat input will remain in the current channel /alias ;b /k Can't answer, busy at the moment! To Fellowship: ;b [Kinship]Bob says: Can't answer, busy at the moment! To Fellowship:
Commands and aliases You can use other /commands than emotes too:
- iSue
/alias ;i /invite Waiting for player to accept or decline invitation
- fa Sue
/alias ;fa /friend add Sue has been added to your list of friends For e.g. /friend, /follow and /invite the name must be added manually or incorporated into the TEXT part of the alias. It might be possible to get around this by creating aliases with ;target in the TEXT, this does not work atm, if anyone can shed some light on this please post.
Managing aliases
List all aliases in standard text window:
/alias list
Delete all aliases
/alias clear
Remove a specified alias ;x
/alias remove ;x
Shortcuts
The shortcut command consists of two parts, the location, LOC, and the TEXT. The general structure of the command is: Quote: /shortcut LOC TEXT LOC is a number between 1 and 72 corresponding to a quickslot:
Quickslot Bar LOC Normal_____1 - 12 Ctrl________13 - 24 Alt ________25 - 36 Shift_______37 - 48
The shortcut slots may be moved around between slots and bars just like skills and equipment. Just assign it to a free slot (e.g. 8) and then move it.
Just as with aliases a single /command may be placed at the beginning of the TEXT. The TEXT may be one or more aliases. Quote: /shortcut 25 /mood_apprehensive /shortcut 26 /flirt nods and ;joey /shortcut 27 /tell MinstrelMax Heal plz! /shortcut 28 ;b Alt+1 Bob is apprehensive of Sue Alt+2 Bob nods and says: How u' doin'? Alt+3 [Tell]Bob tells MinstrelMax: 'Heal plz!' Alt+4 [Kinship]Bob says: Can't answer, busy at the moment!
/shortcut are static, meaning they will remain as whatever they were when created. To shortcut aliases that change like the built in NSWE coordinate alias ;loc or the ;hw in the beginning of this thread you use an alias function: Quote: /alias shortcut ;ID LOC /alias shortcut ;loc 13 Ctrl+1 12.3N, 45.6W In this command there is no / infront of shortcut.
Unfortunatly there is currently no way to make a shortcut apply to a target since there is no inbuilt ;target alias.
Hopefully you can use this to make it a little easier to roleplay or to communicate quickly. Shorten that mouthful Lairelithoniel to ;l And you no longer have any excuse for writing heal plz, when ;h, could do it.
Simple Examples
Basic Sue plays and elf and want to use some sindarin phrases, e.g. Hello: /alias ;hi Mae govannen
- hi
[Say]Sue says 'Mae govannen'
Sue has chosen a sindarin name, Lairelithoniel, for her elf alt. Unfortunately that is a very long and tricky name to remember and spell: /alias ;l Lairelithoniel I am ;l of Lothlorien [Say]Sue says 'I am Lairelithoniel of Lothlorien'
See, we can use aliases within sentences!
Bobs hobbit, named Bobbit, is fierce! He likes to /roar at his enemies: /alias ;r /roar
- r
Bobbit performs roar emote Bobbit ROARS at Sue Sue performs a swordsalute Sue readies her sword and says En garde!
How did Sue get such a good custom message with her emote? Read 'Combining emotes with your own text' below.
Bob is tired of using the Social panel to find Sue in order to invite her to his fellowship and /invite is to long: /alias ;i /invite
- i Sue
Waiting for player to accept or decline invitation Sue has joined your fellowship Yay!
Bob sends alot of /tells to Sue's alt Lairelithoniel but doesn't use the IM chat, he shortens it: /alias ;tl /t Lairelithoniel
- tl Hi!
[Tell]Bob tells Lairelithoniel 'Hi!' Sue responds: [Tell]Lairelithoniel tells Bob 'Mae govannen'
Combining emotes with your own text: Bob wants to throw a snappy salute when an Officer gives an order: /alias ;s /salute
- s
Bob salutes Officer /alias ;ss ;s snaps a salute and shouts *Yes Sir!"
- ss
Perfors salute emote Bob snaps a salute and shouts "Yes Sir!"
Notice how I included 'snaps a salute and shouts', this is because a change overwrites the standard emote message. Just remember to include 'say' or whatever action you are performing before the spoken words.
Multiple aliases
/alias ;mp My preciousss.... /alias ;tb Thief! Baggins! /alias ;sf /shakefist
- mp ;tb He stole ;mp ;sf
[Say]Gollum says: My preciousss.... Thief! Baggins! He stole My preciousss.... /shakefist
Notice how '/shakefist' becomes text instead of Gollum performing an emote, that is because any /command including emotes has to be at the front. Lets try again:
- sf ;tb
Gollum performs shakefist emote Gollum Thief! Baggins!
That sentence lacked any verb, that is because we traded the standard message for our own. You need to bind such things together yourself.
- sf shouts
- ;tb
Gollum performs shakefist emote Gollum shouts: Thief! Baggins!
We then combine the different aliases into one: /alias ;rant ;sf shouts ;tb and wails Oh ;mp ;mp
- rant
Gollum performs shakefist emote Gollum shouts: Thief! Baggins! and wails Oh My preciousss.... My preciousss....
Finally we decide to lock our little rant to a quickslot. How about shift+1 /shortcut 37 ;rant
Shortcut examples
Hate turning around to look what time it is? /shortcut 8 /localtime 8 Localtime is 12:57 am
Advanced Example
Top/under aliases I refer to aliases that are constructed of other aliases as top-aliases and the building blocks as under-aliases. Just above, ;rant was a top-alias and ;mp was a under-alias. As seen in the first post, changing a under-alias also changes the top-alias. This gives us some power.
We can create aliases where we know that one part will be different /alias ;hx /bow says: Hello ;x /alias ;x Sue
- hx
Performs bow Bob says: Hello Sue /alias ;x Max
- hx
Performs bow Bob says: Hello Max
This is the way to easily get e.g. a name into your custom message. But typing the alias command each time is alot of work, lets us the ability to alias a command, we'll alias /alias itself: /alias ;n /alias ;x THIS MIGHT NOT WORK
- x is our variable, it is set by typing
- n "What x should be"
Now we will use the under-alias ;x in the middle of a longer sentence /alias ;hx /bow says: Hello ;x How are you doing?
- hx
Performs bow Bob says: Hello "What x should be" How are you doing?
Oops! Lets change it.
- n Sue
or for Sue's alt Lairelithoniel
- n ;l
- hx
Performs bow Bob says: Hello Lairelithoniel How are you doing?
Now, there is a problem when a top-alias is shortcutted using /shortcut The output from the quickslot stays the same even though the under-alias is changed. This is when the alias sub-function shortcut comes inhandy. We know already that it follows the pattern /alias shortcut ;ID LOC
It's simple, just remember that now the key, LOC, comes last and that there is no / infront of shortcut /alias shortcut ;hx 13 ctrl+1 Performs bow Bob says: Hello Lairelithoniel How are you doing?
- n Sue
ctrl+1 Performs bow Bob says: Hello Sue How are you doing?
