ALIAS, MACROS

Usage:

You cannot define alias, or any of its abbreviations except a as an alias.

The character & (ampersand) acts as a placeholder for arguments to your alias. The rest of the line (after your alias) is inserted where & is found in the definition.

If <expansion> does not contain any &, any following words will be added to the end of the command.

If <word> starts with a % it is a "keyword alias" which will be expanded whenever a keyword lookup is done to find a character, object, or door.

Some words cannot be used as keyword aliases: words that the look command treats specially (at, around, north, east, …) and some prepositions like in, from, and with.

To inhibit keyword alias expansion, you prepend the word in a command with %.

Examples:

> alias dw drink water

> dw

> alias ko kill &.orc

> ko 2

> alias rb ride behind

> rb gandalf

> alias %o orc

> kill o

> alias %sword longsword

> wield sword

> wield %sword

See help account for how the account import command can import aliases from other characters in your account.