Thanks much for this -- works like a charm! :-) I was just starting to read the Wiki page on arguments, then I got your mail...
-- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:04:26AM +0100, Jonas Trollvik wrote: > If you do it like this: > /alias t (args) {//topic $args;} > it will not change the behaviour. > > Also you should not check ifs like if ( [$0]) since if you would try > to do /t 0 the if would evaluate that to false. Instead do if ( @ ) or > if ( # ) > (@ expands to strlen and # expands to word count) > > Best Regards > Jonas / kreca > On 2/20/08, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been tinkering around with EPIC5 for a few days, and there's one > > difference which has been the source of some confusion for me. Take > > for example the following alias on EPIC4/ircII: > > > > alias t //topic > > > > This has two capabilities: a user can type "/t" and see what the current > > topic is and when it was set, or they can type "/t hello bob" and set > > the current topic. > > > > This alias breaks on EPIC5, with "/t" by itself setting the topic to > > literally nothing. The only solution I found was to do this, which > > seems a bit unnecessary: > > > > alias t { if ([$0]) { //topic $* } { //topic } } > > > > Is there a more intelligent way of accomplishing what used to "just > > work" in EPIC4? > > > > -- > > | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | > > | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | > > | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | > > | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | > > > > _______________________________________________ > > List mailing list > > List@epicsol.org > > http://epicsol.org/mailman/listinfo/list > > _______________________________________________ List mailing list List@epicsol.org http://epicsol.org/mailman/listinfo/list
