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<p>Textfile Substitutions
Last revised: March 08, 2002</p>
<section id="textfile-substitutions">
<h1>Textfile Substitutions<a class="headerlink" href="#textfile-substitutions" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h1>
<p>These %-variables can be inserted into help files, the banner, the MOTD,
and other text files. There are four variables that can be used to format
text:</p>
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<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>%b</p></td>
<td><p>display bold</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>%v</p></td>
<td><p>display inverse</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>%_</p></td>
<td><p>display underline</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>%f</p></td>
<td><p>display flashing via telnet; bold underline via IRC</p></td>
</tr>
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<p>These variables will be interpreted by Eggdrop and replaced by their
respective values:</p>
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<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>%B</p></td>
<td><p>bot’s nickname (i.e. “LamestBot”)</p></td>
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<tr class="row-even"><td><p>%V</p></td>
<td><p>current Eggdrop version (i.e. “eggdrop v1.10.1”)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>%E</p></td>
<td><p>long form of %V (i.e. “Eggdrop v1.10.1 (C) 1997
Robey Pointer (C) 2010 Eggheads Development Team”)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>%C</p></td>
<td><p>channels the bot is on (i.e. “#lamest, #botnetcentral”)</p></td>
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<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>%A</p></td>
<td><p>whatever is set in the config file by ‘set admin’</p></td>
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<tr class="row-even"><td><p>%n</p></td>
<td><p>whatever is set in the config file by ‘set network’</p></td>
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<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>%T</p></td>
<td><p>the current time (i.e. “15:00”)</p></td>
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<tr class="row-even"><td><p>%N</p></td>
<td><p>the current user’s nickname (i.e. “Robey”)</p></td>
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<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>%U</p></td>
<td><p>the current operating system the bot is running on</p></td>
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<tr class="row-even"><td><p>%%</p></td>
<td><p>a percent sign (“%”)</p></td>
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<p>You can also encode messages which can only be read by people
with certain flags:</p>
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<div><p>%{+m}
Only masters would see this.
%{-}</p>
<p>%{+A}
Only people with the user flag A see this.
%{-}</p>
<p>%{+b}
This is only displayed to users doing a remote ‘.motd’ from another bot.
%{-}</p>
<p>%{+|m}
Only channel masters would see this.
%{-}</p>
</div></blockquote>
<p>Other variables:</p>
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<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>%{cols=N}</p></td>
<td><p>start splitting output into N columns</p></td>
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<tr class="row-even"><td><p>%{cols=N/W}</p></td>
<td><p>same as above, but use a screen width of W</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>%{end}</p></td>
<td><p>end columnated or restricted (i.e. %{+m}) block</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>%{center}</p></td>
<td><p>center the following text (70 columns)</p></td>
</tr>
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