Alias

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This feature was added to the EL client a little while ago by Alvie. This is a short tutorial written by Minion07 and editted to fit in wiki.

#alias lets you save something you type a lot. e.g. instead of typing #gm Hello All! , you could just type #1.

To alias something, type:

#alias <number> <message>

where <number> is 1-99

Then to use the alias:

#<number>


e.g.

#alias 1 #gm Hello World #1


would say #gm Hello World.

To remove aliases, type:

#unalias <number>


e.g. #unalias 1

would remove the alias we created earlier.

You can list all the aliases you have made by typing #aliases.

Advanced Features

You can also create aliases that accept arguments. For example, if you often advertise in the market " I'm selling Life Essences @ 4 gc each pm me for details (not a bot) ". You could alias the text so that it allows any item:

#alias 1 @@3 I'm selling $0 @ $1 gc each pm me for details (not a bot)


Then to send your advert :

#1 "Life Essence" 4


or to advertise Fox Fur @ 5 gc (for example)

#1 "Fox Fur" 5


Note: the arguments are space separated so if you want 2 words to be 1 argument, use "".

Finally, the aliases are recursive so, continuing the advert example, if you had an advert you sent all the time, you could do:

#alias 2 #1 "Life Essence" 4


then typing #2 would send: @@3 I'm selling Life Essences @ 4 gc each pm me for details (not a bot)