[Freeciv-Dev] Re: teamslite10

[Paul Zastoupil <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 06:23:43PM +0200, Daniel Sjölie wrote:
> On 2002-10-25 18:25:18, Ilkka Lehtoranta wrote:
> > On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> > 
> > > On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Thomas Strub wrote:
> > > > > - Team chat added. Prefix your messages with '|' to send to team 
> > > > > mates.
> > > >
> > > > I don't know where the | is on the us-keyboard but "ALT GR + <" on
> > > > german keyboard isn't that easy to press. I like the feature. Its
> > > > working really good. But i don't like to break my fingers to do
> > > > Team-Chat.
> > >
> > > I don't have a US keyboard, either, but on mine that key is readily
> > > available, and I thought it was generally, since it is the Quake console
> > > key :)
> > >
> > > What prefix would be good, then? '/' and ':' taken, how about '!'?
> > 
> > Why not implement IRC stylish commands?
> > 
> > I.e.
> > 
> > /msg peter hi!   <-- private message
> > /team lets rock! <-- team message
> 
> Interesting idea...
> How about simply implementing a "msg" command in the server?
> The syntax could be something like "msg target message..." where target is
> either the name of a player or a special keyword such as "team" or "all"..
> The client could add "/msg all" to the beginning of lines without a "/"
> and if desired other prefixes or shortcuts could also be interpreted as
> the client wishes...
> 
> I think it would be a nice bonus to be able to send messages to players
> from the server - there isn't reall such a command right now, is there?

There is, "wall", a patch I wrote :)

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Paul Zastoupil