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James McCoy f5df6695c0 Alias: Restore recursion limit and limit memory use The (faulty) detection of recursive Aliases was removed in `a656fd0693`, claiming that "our nesting limit will catch issues now." However, nested Aliases weren't actually increasing the nesting level. Actually increasing the nesting level when an alias is executed restores the intended behavior. Additionally, limiting the size of the expanded arguments to an alias prevents exponential growth of memory usage for certain malicious inputs/aliases. Signed-off-by: James McCoy <vega.james@gmail.com>		2014-06-09 23:48:41 -04:00
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README.txt	Alias: Add a useful README	2009-03-15 22:13:42 -04:00
__init__.py	Change the modeline to use softtabstop instead of tabstop.	2006-02-11 15:52:51 +00:00
config.py	Change the modeline to use softtabstop instead of tabstop.	2006-02-11 15:52:51 +00:00
plugin.py	Alias: Restore recursion limit and limit memory use	2014-06-09 23:48:41 -04:00
test.py	fix alias bug https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2987147&group_id=58965&atid=489447	2010-04-14 22:25:40 -04:00

README.txt

This plugin allows the user to create various aliases to other commands
or combinations of other commands (via nested commands).  It is a good
idea to always quote the commands that are being aliased so that any
nested commands are not immediately run.

Basic usage
-----------

Add an alias, trout, which expects a word as an argument

<jamessan> @alias add trout "action slaps $1 with a large trout"
<bot> jamessan: The operation succeeded.
<jamessan> @trout me
* bot slaps me with a large trout

Add an alias, lastfm, which expects a last.fm user and replies with
their recently played items.

@alias add lastfm "rss [format concat http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/user/ [format concat [urlquote $1] /recenttracks.rss]]"

Note that if the nested commands being aliased hadn't been quoted, then
those commands would have been run immediately, and @lastfm would always
reply with the same information, the result of those commands.