An alias can't have its own name in its command, but it can calls another alias that changes it. If at that point the first alias is run the game crashes. Also infinite loops can easily be set up and will crash the game.

Heh, yeah I just fixed the alias issue of not being able to have itself in there.
However I will have to have some sort of counter to prevent infinite loops. All I can say right now is don't do that. ;)

Ya when I did it I was looking for possible problems and was not really expecting everything to work perfectly. : ) Not particularly critical.

Hmmmm... well you can now have an alias that changes itself... but it still crashes if you do it.

Hey, i found out about infinite loops first!

/alias loop "say spam ; loop"
/loop

or:

/alias loop "echo la"
/alias loop-return "loop"
/alias loop "loop-return"

Either one crashes it.

or
/alias abc "123"
/alias 123 "abc"

Heh, Suicidal, you reported that bug a while ago but it's not really that important to fix.

At least ya know!

eldrad, yours won't work because when you make the first alias it'll have no clue what the command 123 is.

suicidal if you put it into the .cfg problem that avoids it otherwise you have to actually do something like:

/alias 123 none
/alias abc "123"
/alias 123 "abc"


Raybondo how difficult will it be to fix the crashing of self changing aliases?

I fixed it yesterday.
Aliases are now just a string that gets executed every time you call the alias. I hope that doesn't cause any problems. However I still haven't fixed any infinite loops that this could cause.

Still crashes for me I sent a bug report with more detailed information.

no poop. We didn't release an update yet.
Fixing it just means I fixed it here, not releasing the fix.

/me chuckles lightly

Sorry.

Next time say:

I fixed it yesterday, it will be released in the next version.

Lol... sorry Raybondo... my fault

Hmm, I may have to delete the potty-mouth ;)

Heh, I edited it. ;)

Me runs circles around ray-bondo chanting, "Potty-Mouth Potty-Mouth Potty-Mouth Potty-Mouth Potty-Mouth"

I think my 14 yea old self is beginning to kick in. =)

OK, this thread is past done being useful ;)