Editing Alias

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== #Alias ==

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.

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

To alias something, type:

''<nowiki>#</nowiki>alias <number> <message>''

where <number> is 0-99

Then to use the alias:

''<nowiki>#</nowiki><number>''

 e.g. 
 ''<nowiki>#</nowiki>alias 1 #gm Hello World
 <nowiki>#</nowiki>1''

would say <nowiki>#</nowiki>gm Hello World.

To remove aliases, type:

''<nowiki>#</nowiki>unalias <number>''

 e.g. 
 ''<nowiki>#</nowiki>unalias 1''

would remove the alias we created earlier.

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

== Advanced Features: arguments ==

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

Then to send your advert :
 ''<nowiki>#</nowiki>1 "Life Essence" 4''

or to advertise Fox Fur @ 5 gc (for example)
 ''<nowiki>#</nowiki>1 "Fox Fur" 5''


Note: the arguments are space separated so if you want 2 words to be 1 argument, use set of double quotes ("").

Finally, the aliases are recursive so, continuing the advert example, if you had an advert you sent all the time, you could do:
 ''<nowiki>#</nowiki>alias 2 <nowiki>#</nowiki>1 "Life Essence" 4''

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


If you don't pass enough arguments as required, an error will be shown
  Text alias requires parameters, but none given

Extra arguments are ignored silently without an error.