Aliases

Aliases are the easiest way to get some things done in this bot. Aliases are essentially a way to bind a command to some specific keyword that you can activate later. To use them, load the meta plugin.

Syntax

An alias consists of 2 pieces: the trigger and the command. To create an alias, use the alias command as follows:

alias "name" "command to execute"

After you have created an alias, you can simply activate it by typing it's name.

Example (assuming toolbox plugin is loaded and your prefix is /):

/alias "/rules" "/echo ```
Rules of this server:
1) Respect each other.
2) Do not post harmful or violent content.
3) Be cool.
```"

Arguments

Sometimes you might want to pass additional arguments to the command inside an alias. There are multiple way to do so:

Specify a single argument using a dollar sign ($) and the numeric position of the argument
Specify the entire text after the alias using ellipsis

Examples:

/alias "!speak" "/speak ..."

When !speak alias is used, anything after it will be passed to the /speak command

/alias "!exp" "/calculate $1^2"

When !exp is used, the first argument (the first piece of text after the command ending with a space or a newline) is passed into the formula n^2, which is then passed to the /calculate command.

Note: If you're using a string as a single argument and it contains spaces, you should quote the string when passing the argument, like so (assuming /alias !echo "/speak You said: $1")

!echo "This is a string with spaces as a single argument"

This isn't needed with ... syntax because it passes all available arguments.