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.. _plugin-News:
Documentation for the News plugin for Supybot
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Purpose
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A module to allow each channel to have "news". News items may have expiration
dates.
It was partially inspired by the news system used on #debian's bot.
Usage
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This plugin provides a means of maintaining News for a channel.
.. _commands-News:
Commands
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.. _command-News-add:
add [<channel>] <expires> <subject>: <text>
Adds a given news item of <text> to a channel with the given <subject>. If <expires> isn't 0, that news item will expire <expires> seconds from now. <channel> is only necessary if the message isn't sent in the channel itself.
.. _command-News-change:
change [<channel>] <id> <regexp>
Changes the news item with <id> from <channel> according to the regular expression <regexp>. <regexp> should be of the form s/text/replacement/flags. <channel> is only necessary if the message isn't sent on the channel itself.
.. _command-News-news:
news [<channel>] [<id>]
Display the news items for <channel> in the format of '(#id) subject'. If <id> is given, retrieve only that news item; otherwise retrieve all news items. <channel> is only necessary if the message isn't sent in the channel itself.
.. _command-News-old:
old [<channel>] [<id>]
Returns the old news item for <channel> with <id>. If no number is given, returns all the old news items in reverse order. <channel> is only necessary if the message isn't sent in the channel itself.
.. _command-News-remove:
remove [<channel>] <id>
Removes the news item with <id> from <channel>. <channel> is only necessary if the message isn't sent in the channel itself.
Configuration
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supybot.plugins.News.public
This config variable defaults to "True", is not network-specific, and is not channel-specific.
Determines whether this plugin is publicly visible.