Limnoria/plugins/News/README.rst
Valentin Lorentz 833af36b08 all plugins: auto-generate READMEs
Starting with this commit, there should be no "original" text
in READMEs.
Instead, the entire text should be in docstrings, and READMEs
should be automatically generated from these docstrings.

Motivation:

* The same help is available both via IRC and in the README
  (although the README can be more detailed, as only the first
  paragraph will be shown on IRC)
* This will allow auto-generating plugin help on docs.limnoria.net
  using the same content as the README, as it's sourced from the
  docstrings

Additionally, this converts all READMEs from Markdown to ReST,
because the documentation already uses ReST, and other docstrings
in the codebase are in ReST for this reason.
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.. _plugin-News:
Documentation for the News plugin for Supybot
=============================================
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
-----
This plugin provides a means of maintaining News for a channel.
Commands
--------
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.