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| − | <b>/say <message></b> is Vicinity. | + | <b>/say <i>message</i></b> is Vicinity. |
| − | <b>/o <message></b> is your Org (guild). | + | <b>/o <i>message</i></b> is your Org (guild). |
| − | <b>/t <message></b> is Team (active only when in a team). | + | <b>/t <i>message</i></b> is Team (active only when in a team). |
| − | Back before the new chat system, it was a pain to change chat channels; you | + | Back before the new chat system, it was a pain to change chat channels; you could change channels by either clicking on the channel in your Friends drop down or by using <b>/ch <channel name></b> like <b>/ch vicinity</b> or <b>/ch vi</b> and so on. That second method is even more cumbersome if you have a guild with a name like mine - <b>/ch Devil`s Advocate</b> is a lot to type. Personally, I still find changing channels with the newer chat system a little clumsy so what I did, before even the new chat system existed, was create some scripts for changing chat channels which I still use to this day: |
| − | <b>/da</b> changes to my guild channel using <i>/ch Devil`s Advocate</i> | + | <b>/da</b> changes to my guild channel using a script file named <b>da</b> containing <i>/ch Devil`s Advocate</i> |
| − | <b>/tm</b> goes to Team using <i>/ch team</i> | + | <b>/tm</b> goes to Team using a script file named <b>tm</b> containing <i>/ch team</i> |
| − | <b>/vic</b> goes to Vicinity using <i>/ch vicinity</i> | + | <b>/vic</b> goes to Vicinity using a script file named <b>vic</b> containing <i>/ch vicinity</i> |
| − | And you can make ones for whatever other channels you wish like | + | And you can make ones for whatever other channels you wish. It's handy to have scripts to change to shopping and private channels (like raid bots). |
| − | One thing that I added to these scripts is a message that only I can see confirming which channel I had switched to: <b>/text <message></b>. So now, the scripts look something like this example: | + | One thing that I added to these scripts is a message that only I can see confirming which channel I had switched to: <b>/text <i>message</i></b>. So now, the scripts look something like this example: |
Revision as of 20:22, 26 November 2005
Originally posted by Nevver on 9/16/2002
You can send messages to different channels like so:
/say message is Vicinity.
/o message is your Org (guild).
/t message is Team (active only when in a team).
Back before the new chat system, it was a pain to change chat channels; you could change channels by either clicking on the channel in your Friends drop down or by using /ch <channel name> like /ch vicinity or /ch vi and so on. That second method is even more cumbersome if you have a guild with a name like mine - /ch Devil`s Advocate is a lot to type. Personally, I still find changing channels with the newer chat system a little clumsy so what I did, before even the new chat system existed, was create some scripts for changing chat channels which I still use to this day:
/da changes to my guild channel using a script file named da containing /ch Devil`s Advocate
/tm goes to Team using a script file named tm containing /ch team
/vic goes to Vicinity using a script file named vic containing /ch vicinity
And you can make ones for whatever other channels you wish. It's handy to have scripts to change to shopping and private channels (like raid bots).
One thing that I added to these scripts is a message that only I can see confirming which channel I had switched to: /text message. So now, the scripts look something like this example:
/ch Vicinity
/text Vicinity chat
The newer chat system displays the name of the chat channel you are in already so you might not find as useful anymore, but I still have it in my scripts and like the confirmation message (but probably more out of laziness).
