Textfile Substitutions Last revised: March 08, 2002
Textfile Substitutions¶
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:
| %b | display bold | 
| %v | display inverse | 
| %_ | display underline | 
| %f | display flashing via telnet; bold underline via IRC | 
These variables will be interpreted by Eggdrop and replaced by their respective values:
| %B | bot’s nickname (i.e. “LamestBot”) | 
| %V | current Eggdrop version (i.e. “eggdrop v1.10.0”) | 
| %E | long form of %V (i.e. “Eggdrop v1.10.0 (C) 1997 Robey Pointer (C) 2010 Eggheads Development Team”) | 
| %C | channels the bot is on (i.e. “#lamest, #botnetcentral”) | 
| %A | whatever is set in the config file by ‘set admin’ | 
| %n | whatever is set in the config file by ‘set network’ | 
| %T | the current time (i.e. “15:00”) | 
| %N | the current user’s nickname (i.e. “Robey”) | 
| %U | the current operating system the bot is running on | 
| %% | a percent sign (“%”) | 
You can also encode messages which can only be read by people with certain flags:
%{+m} Only masters would see this. %{-}
%{+A} Only people with the user flag A see this. %{-}
%{+b} This is only displayed to users doing a remote ‘.motd’ from another bot. %{-}
%{+|m} Only channel masters would see this. %{-}
Other variables:
| %{cols=N} | start splitting output into N columns | 
| %{cols=N/W} | same as above, but use a screen width of W | 
| %{end} | end columnated or restricted (i.e. %{+m}) block | 
| %{center} | center the following text (70 columns) | 
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