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My original intention was to showcase the specific utility of using nicknames and aliases to manage your inventory with a container (sporran), the scroll nicknaming alias, gear loadouts, and a couple of other niche uses of for loops that I think are interesting. But I've come to realize that a list of "useful aliases" has a near perfect overlap of a list of "useful commands" for new players. So with that in mind I'm considering rewriting this section as two (possibly three) articles. My original intention was to showcase the specific utility of using nicknames and aliases to manage your inventory with a container (sporran), the scroll nicknaming alias, gear loadouts, and a couple of other niche uses of for loops that I think are interesting. But I've come to realize that a list of "useful aliases" has a near perfect overlap of a list of "useful commands" for new players. So with that in mind I'm considering rewriting this section as two (possibly three) articles.
-The first one will include all of the aliases from the original article plus many more that are useful but not interesting (to me). This will possibly be useful to new players coming across the page because they will be simultaneously be introduced to commands they might not be familiar with and the lengths they can go through to avoid typing them. It will have more raw alias commands and less commentary than the original. The second article will be more of an intermediate command guide that covers some of the play patterns and less obvious uses of [[targeting]], nicknaming, and lists that I got windy about in the original article while omitting all of the obviously useful junk like set alias short to say typing short words is easier than typing long words.+The first one will include all of the aliases from the original article plus many more that are useful but not interesting (to me). This will possibly be useful to new players coming across the page because they will be simultaneously be introduced to commands they might not be familiar with and the lengths they can go through to avoid typing them. It will have more raw alias commands and less commentary than the original. The second article will be more of an intermediate command guide that covers some of the play patterns and less obvious uses of [[Specifying_Targets|targeting]], nicknaming, and lists that I got windy about in the original article while omitting all of the obviously useful junk like set alias short to say typing short words is easier than typing long words.
Below is a rough outline for what those two articles might look like, maybe I'll come back to this later. Below is a rough outline for what those two articles might look like, maybe I'll come back to this later.

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My original intention was to showcase the specific utility of using nicknames and aliases to manage your inventory with a container (sporran), the scroll nicknaming alias, gear loadouts, and a couple of other niche uses of for loops that I think are interesting. But I've come to realize that a list of "useful aliases" has a near perfect overlap of a list of "useful commands" for new players. So with that in mind I'm considering rewriting this section as two (possibly three) articles.

The first one will include all of the aliases from the original article plus many more that are useful but not interesting (to me). This will possibly be useful to new players coming across the page because they will be simultaneously be introduced to commands they might not be familiar with and the lengths they can go through to avoid typing them. It will have more raw alias commands and less commentary than the original. The second article will be more of an intermediate command guide that covers some of the play patterns and less obvious uses of targeting, nicknaming, and lists that I got windy about in the original article while omitting all of the obviously useful junk like set alias short to say typing short words is easier than typing long words.

Below is a rough outline for what those two articles might look like, maybe I'll come back to this later. --Stride 14:56, 18 October 2021 (EDT)

Contents

Useful Aliases that will make your brain smarter and keep your keyboard fresh (working title)

intro

Type less words to do more things, duh.

Useful atman aliases

Go commands

not comprehensive, mostly just a link to Xailor's Speedwalks the go commands on the [[Lenses] page deserve a shoutout, I see that page has twice as many views as this one

Trainer commands

not comprehensive, though potentially a page for this (similar to xailor's) would be cool, a dynamic procedural one even better

Inventory management

(very) briefly explain nickname scheme rationale, link to article #2, invite player to substitute their own

SPOHO and/or PHOLE stuff

include SPOHO and PHOL variants

Gear sets

similar to original

Inventory items

similar

iouns

tap em, stow em, pick em up

Consummables

scrolls potions lenses food just noticed there's no Oil Lanterns article in the page

Dupes

trying to keep this server-side only, but can maybe talk about triggers here

Modifying and viewing Behavioural Settings and Character Management

stats/development, combat settings, suspending/enabling attacks and defenses keeping/keep capacity

Info Dumps and Display Settings

score, common help files like taeb, exploration, experience stuff that makes sense to view together but isn't a category like cmed/med/cref attack/damage/deflect[/discharge/launch/throw] or whatever filtering, pagination

Common Actions

variants of treat me, rest/meditate, looting determine location, wander, look around extinguish, relent/conciliate (because it's difficult type letters in order while you're on fire) busting doors, pulling levers, the shadow tower key one

Followers

for followers here do say blah to each for familiars here do concentrate on urging each to blah check health, treat, check xp, stuff like that

Incarnoi aliases

brief about baseline, and posture

baselineing your (and followers') attack

the posture nonsense

Affil aliases

Hopefully not just things that are obvious like short word better than long word, but those are sometimes fine too, include links to all affils because interconnectivity is good.

slingers

garlic

Article #2 Neat things to do with aliases

Less write more do

Aliases that are just abbreviations for commands you don't wanna type

ex to extinguish
think about my ability to form empathic bonds
set specialty degree in
concentrate on urging familiar_name_here to $@

Less write lots do

Aliases that are several commands executed in series, sometimes multiple aliases that chain

set attack scatter to 100;set effort to 200;set combat mode to all-out;concentrate on urging familiar to also do that or whatever
go somewhere;unwield weapons;go more in;say something (wait)
go in more;do some more stuff;get thing;go elsewhere;say next thing (wait)
win!

nicknames

cover the inventory management stuff in case it's interesting to someone

for loops

these are neat and cool

for me and companions do treat each
get foods;eat food;eat food;eat food;put foods
for lanterns do refill each from flask of oil

baselining

stop attacking with all;start attacking with good stuff
free hand;wield thing

fail cases, lists of things, lists of things with exclusions

the inventory thing possessions and items, belongings, items except belongings, friends etc.

wield $@ two-handed;wield $@
get thing1 and tihng2;get thing2

contact me if there's cool stuff I don't know I wanna know it

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