[CF-Devel] '/command and '<text to say>

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On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 05:21:41AM -0600, Brian Angeletti wrote:
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      Yes that would work, but I feel that server side would pay off more in 
     
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      the end.  It would make sense to make our current style as the default 
     
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      if the slashed command prefix weren't *much* more common than our 
     
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      command style.  For example, IRC and the overwhelming majority of other 
     
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      MMOGs prefix commands with a /.
     
     
This is a bogus argument; IRC (and probably most MMOGs) do it on
the client.  When you type "foo" in an IRC channel window, what
is really sent to the server is "privmsg #channel foo".

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      Finally, it makes more sense to err on the side of caution and
     
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      use the most commonly used command style rather than to force
     
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      people to learn a new command entry style if they haven't used
     
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      it before.
     
     
Agreed.  Let's patch the clients.

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