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Mcmoo
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Joined: 10 Jan 2006
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 Posted: Jan 17, 2006 6:24am Post subject: add colour to motd |
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| Ok this is probably a simple thing but i'm a simple gal. How do i add colour to the ircd.motd and oper.motd? via a linux shell using vi/vim. |
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]Daniel
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Joined: 05 Jan 2006
Posts: 317
Location: Boise, ID
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| Posted: Jan 17, 2006 6:35am Post subject: Re: add colour to motd |
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| Mcmoo wrote: | | Ok this is probably a simple thing but i'm a simple gal. How do i add colour to the ircd.motd and oper.motd? via a linux shell using vi/vim. |
If you dont know much about it, and i really dont know VI very well, just write the motd with notepad, and do a CTRL + K in the mirc like u would for a text color, enter the number, then copy that to the notepad file, then save it as ircd.motd and then upload it. |
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Aven
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Joined: 05 Aug 2005
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| Posted: Jan 20, 2006 9:40am Post subject: |
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This isn't a good idea at all. People have different background colors, they don't all go well with colors.
People also customize their IRC client colors for a reason, so it sucks when someone changes the colors... |
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Mcmoo
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Joined: 10 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Jan 20, 2006 11:35pm Post subject: |
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Well it's my network lol and i want colours - anyway i figured out an easier way:
go into the document with vi (vi ircd.motd)
then go into insert mode (i)
then press ctrl and v together (ctrl+v)
then press ctrl and c together (ctrl+c)
then hit whatever no. in mirc which corresponds to the colour you want, i wanted bright green (9)
so it should look like
^C9
for bold just
(ctrl+v)(ctrl+b)(ctrl+v)(ctrl+c)(9)
so it should look like
^B^C9 |
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Aven
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Joined: 05 Aug 2005
Posts: 393
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| Posted: Jan 21, 2006 12:34am Post subject: |
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| Mcmoo wrote: | | Well it's my network lol |
yeah, it's always a good idea to add pretty colors to your motd  |
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braindigitalis
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Joined: 22 Sep 2003
Posts: 443
Location: IRC
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| Posted: Jan 21, 2006 1:16pm Post subject: |
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| Aven wrote: | | Mcmoo wrote: | | Well it's my network lol |
yeah, it's always a good idea to add pretty colors to your motd |
It might not be such a good idea if someone breaks the rules, and when asked why, says "well i couldnt read them, they were obscured by the pretty colours!"  |
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Mcmoo
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| Posted: Mar 06, 2006 10:46pm Post subject: |
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| Haha, if they break the rules, seeing as the rules are all common sense type ones, then they must be half a cup full of sand short of a glass anyway and i probably wouldn't want them on my network to start off with. |
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JasonC
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Joined: 18 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Jun 18, 2006 12:10am Post subject: |
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| I have experimented with adding colors to vhosts and whois lines for operators. Just paste the ^C character into the configuration and add your color number and you hae a colored hostname for your staff |
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katsklaw
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Joined: 28 Jun 2004
Posts: 1099
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| Posted: Jun 18, 2006 6:44am Post subject: |
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| Just my opinion, but it appears to me that you're assuming that most people actually read the motd in the first place. |
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paulmer2003
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Joined: 18 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Jul 04, 2006 2:35pm Post subject: |
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| If you dont mine me saying..Please dont put color in your MOTD. It just looks down. And keep formatting down to just bold. And make sure MOTD is no longer than a page long..If you want anyone to read it. |
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