Help command about sidekick HOT 3 CLOSED

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A help command like that it would be nice, of course, but we're not the only bot around, you know? There are tons of bots and some of them are using the "/help" shortcut, no doubt.

It might be just the bad programming habits, like not polluting the global namespace, but adding more shortcuts like that just doesn't sit well with me. Googling "namespace pollution" might tell you more of where I'm coming from.

We have "/r help" already, try it out, though it might be quite a bit outdated.

What I'm thinking is that "/r" without arguments should probably display the help. And of course we'd need a better help message.

What I'm really excited though is the idea of channeling any messsages addressed to Sidekick to a support chat. Talking with the dev should be as simple as saying "@ Sidekick, something". It's not directly related to actually providing help, just something that would be fun to have. And it's deep in the list of other dev tasks I have queued. But it's something I'm really looking forward to. : >

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It might be just the bad programming habits, like not polluting the global namespace, but adding more shortcut like that just doesn't sit well with me

I agree completely.
Your suggestion of /r help sounds good, I checked out it since I didn't know about that previously and received an output that wasn't very...user friendly? Lol

/roll [$name] ${pool}d${dice}[+${modifier}] [$comment]

I think just "/r" would be good too.

Talking with the dev should be as simple as saying "@ Sidekick, something"

Now THAT is something I wish every bot had, though that would perhaps lead to developers of bots that are used on many servers to quickly go crazy lol.

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The "/r" command now prints some help!

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