Standard phrases

[Bereror]

This idea is related mostly to the help channel (at least for me), but could be useful for the normal role-play conversation as well.

Sometimes the help channel gets flooded with questions that could be answered with a previously stored standard answer. That would help giving polite answers to the next variation of \"why are rats impervious?\" question.

Current workaround is to scroll up in the history and modify the name of the character who is asking for help. But these standard phrases could be stored in a configuration file and  have a name that could be used in the conversation. Before sending text to the server, phrase names are expanded to the stored text.

Here are few examples:

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Bob asks: Why i can\'t attack monsters? (Monster is impervious to attack))
[B][COLOR=green]/advice Bob $npcdown[/COLOR][/B]
You advice: The npcclient software is down. We have to wait until it is restarted or fixed.

Joe asks: how do I get out of death realm
[B][COLOR=green]/advice Joe $dr[/COLOR][/B]
You advice: Look around for a portal that takes you back to the outer realm. Following other dead souls may help you finding it.



EDIT: I wonder if the current chat filter could be used for it?

[thandar]

That\'s interesting.

I often find I\'d like to send a variation on what I\'ve previously sent.

How about adding marking/cutting/pasting in to the command line? Would that do it?

[c-2501]

its just as easy to press the up key a few times and then change the player name  

[DaveG]

The standard trick is to create shortcuts and just edit the person\'s name.

[Bereror]

Originally posted by DaveG
The standard trick is to create shortcuts and just edit the person\'s name.

How do you create a shortcut that inserts text to the chat box and allows editing it before sending to the server?



And I am not 10 years old, maybe drunk, but not both

[Shooree]

*BUMP*

yeah, DaveG... how do you do that? It really would make things a bit easier when using several chans at once to give advice.

Mh, technology always seems to leave you behind.

[DaveG]

Just add a shortcut a la \"/advice bob Some long speech\" and edit the shortcut before each send.  (by right clicking on the shortcut button)  No, it\'s not ideal, and in fact I think Drey has had a request for a quick reply feature (like for /tell) sitting on BugTracker for a while.