[2.1.5] echo command (minor)

[chopkinsca]

Not sure what would have been a better title. Found something in the recent updates that is different from past versions in regards to using echo. For exampe:

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bind a "echo hello there"

will print "hello there" to the console, but in game just the "hello".

Since this is probably not really a bug, what's the proper way to do a muti word echo in an alias which already requires to be put into quotes. Doing another quote would break up the alias command.

Then again, it might be a bug. I added the quotes to the alias in the zdoom.ini and it still only displays the first word.

[Kirby]

Did you try a second set of quotes inside the first set of quotes?

[wildweasel]

If one were to do that:

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 bind a "echo "hello there""

then ZDoom would just treat it as:

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bind a "echo "

and completely ignoring everything after the second quote.

[Theshooter7]

Wouldn't you do:

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bind a "echo \"hello there\""

or

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bind a "echo hello|there"

Since the Pipe Symbol | Doesn't show up in-game.

[chopkinsca]

Wouldn't you do:

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bind a "echo "hello there""

or

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bind a "echo hello|there"

Since the Pipe Symbol | Doesn't show up in-game.

Thanks, both of those work.

[HotWax]

Ah, the good ol' escape character. Where would we be without you?

[Jive]

Thank you a lot for you answer, Theshooter7.
It solved my problem.

That said, there is a bug in the last version of Zdoom, and GZDoom is now bugged too...
I posted the same kind of topic on the GZDoom forum HERE

[randi]

Since this is probably not really a bug

That seems like a strange thing to assume, considering it's never worked like this before, and the notify text at the top of the screen is supposed to show exactly the same text as the console.

the Pipe Symbol | Doesn't show up in-game.

That's true for the standard Doom font, but only because it doesn't contain a | character. So consider this usage of the | character as a hack, because that's exactly what it is.

[Theshooter7]

That's true for the standard Doom font, but only because it doesn't contain a | character. So consider this usage of the | character as a hack, because that's exactly what it is.

I was aware of that. But I'm wondering why not add it with ZDoom?

[Graf Zahl]

Actually, the font does have the pipe character. But the lump is mis-named so it can't be identified and it also creates other problems.