[Freeciv-Dev] (PR#11339) helpdata for chatline

["Mike Kaufman" <kaufman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11339 >

some people might not realize you can send messages to your allies...

-mike

Index: data/helpdata.txt
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RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/helpdata.txt,v
retrieving revision 1.128.2.1
diff -u -r1.128.2.1 helpdata.txt
--- data/helpdata.txt   22 Nov 2004 04:00:21 -0000      1.128.2.1
+++ data/helpdata.txt   4 Dec 2004 23:03:53 -0000
@@ -518,12 +518,17 @@
 The client has a primitive chat interface.  The lines you type \
 are sent to all players, except:\
 "), _("\
-  - Messages starting with 'foo:' are private messages to the \
-player named 'foo'; player names can be abbreviated.\
-"), _("\
   - Messages starting with '/' are interpreted as server commands \
-(if the server is recent enough; regular 1.8.0 servers are not) \
-and executed, if you have the required access rights.\
+and executed, if you have the required access level.\
+"), _("\         
+  - Messages starting with 'foo:' are private messages to 'foo'. \
+Names can be abbreviated. The server looks for players named 'foo' \
+and if that fails tries to match a username 'foo'.\
+"), _("\
+  - Messages starting with 'foo::' are private messages as above, but \
+will match only users named 'foo'.\
+"), _("\
+  - Messages starting with '.' will be sent only to all your allies.\
 ")
 
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