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copying aliases | Make your own | Text Manipulations |
Before we start I want to express the importance of ALWAYS backing up your aliases. Make a copy and save it on a floppy or another part of your hard drive.
Aliases are basically shortcuts to long typed commands. They can be used for fun/colorful multi-lined popups or useful shortcuts to save keystrokes. This page will show you how to create your own aliases and things that go with aliases! Below is an aliases showing how to use the timer control.

I pefer to make my aliases without using the timer. This can be done buy just using the limit and delay rate in the prefs. Don't forget to open the flood and hit ok each time you come on line

Stealing or "Acquiring" aliases

To steal a popup/alias off the screen place your cursor at the beginning of the popup you want to take. Hold down your left mouse button and drag it across the entire popup. Take the line below the popup to make sure you get the whole popup. This will highlight the popup. When you release the mouse button the highlight will go away--DO NOT PANIC-- It is still copied and transferred to your computer clipboard. click on aliases on your toolbar. Click Add, name your popup, and click OK. In the large window(text edit area) on the right in aliases, right click and then click paste or press CTRL+V. Now you need to make sure you edit out any unwanted names/lines and always SAVE your work

Creating An Alias

Making your own aliases is just as easy as stealing them from the screen. Just click on ADD, name the alias...now go to the large window on the right - command defination - and make your alias. Make sure you save your work(just click on the check mark top left corner)
You can see the color codes in this alias along with some common variables which are discussed further down the page [This is a private notice with color] (name:N2)
/notice $snick 4,1~~~>watch this guy<~~~
/n2
make sure you highlight a name

Colors/Variables for Aliases

Here are a few variables for aliases...the help file has a complete listing of variables

$snick to insert a "highlighted" name in an alias
/me to insert Your nickname /me Show action
$day The day $time The time $date day of month
# The channel/room you are in

these are common text manipulations

Ctrl+K and a #0-15 = Colors

Ctrl+B =Bold Ctrl+I = Italics
Ctrl+U = Underline Ctrl+S = Symbol Font(symbol font)
Ctrl+F = Fixed Font (Courier)

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