GlossaryΒΆ
Note
This page is a work in progress, and is still very incomplete. Please send your ideas/suggestions on the IRC channel!
- boolean
- A value that can be either True or False.
- command
- An action that can be triggered by typing its name on IRC.
- configuration variable
- configuration value
A configuration variable is an object with a name that can be set to different values to change the behavior of the bot.
They can be changed with the plugin-Config plugin.
- inFilter
Some code that replaces messages right after the bot receives them from IRC, and before it starts processing them.
This is the opposite of outFilter.
- network
- An IRC network, ie. a group of connected IRC servers, that share the same set of channels and users
- outfilter
- outFilter
Some code or command that replaces messages just before the bot sends them to IRC.
Some plugins define them for their own purposes, such as plugin-ShrinkUrl to replace URLs. The plugin-Filter plugin provides an
outfiltercommand to allow bot admins to customize the messages written by their bot.This is the opposite of inFilter.
- plugin
- Some Python code/package that provides commands.
- server
- A node in an IRC :term`network`. Limnoria usually does not care about servers, and deals with entire networks as a single entity.
- specific
- channel-specific
- network-specific
- channel-specific
- A configuration variable is said to be channel-specific and/or network-specific when it can takes different values depending on the channel/network it is used in.