Queries in an editing command

Hey @Loyal Octopus!

Yes, there's a workaround, it's to use a Pastebin.

So for example you want your !leaderboard command's response to be:

Current leaderboard: blablabla $(query)

Then you should set up your !setleaderboard command like so:

!addcom !setleaderboard -a=!commands edit !leaderboard Current Leaderboard: $(query) $(urlfetch https://pastebin.com/raw/XXXXXXXX)

Don't forget to replace XXXXXXXX with your paste ID.

And in your unlisted never-expiring paste, simply write: $(query)

In general if we want an alias of !editcom to edit a command to have a variable $(varname) in its response, we can output it by eval to stop Nightbot from parsing it.

$(eval `$`+`(varname)`)

If we want !setleaderboard to have $(query) in its response we can do

!addcom !setleaderboard -a=!editcom !leaderboard Current Leaderboard: $(eval `$`+`(query)`)

Thank you so much, I dont know why this work around never occured to me but i did figure out how to make it work with this!

This format didnt quite end up working the way i needed it to but thank you nonetheless! This particular format should help in different commands if i try to modify them! It also helped me remember that !editcom works as the full alias command rather than the -a=!commands edit

Oh right, I forgot we could do it this way... I'm so used to needing more than just a $(query), in which case a Pastebin makes more sense. Thank you for the reminder.