These shortcuts can be used when typing commands directly in the Terminal window.

Note Since you rarely need to type commands directly in MacFIBS, the information below is not very useful, but is presented here for completeness sake.

Command abbreviation

To enter a command it's sufficient to type only a portion of the command that identifies it. There are some commands that are recognized with one or two letters although there are other commands starting with the same prefix. The commands that are handled with this special treatment are:

b = board,
i = invite,
k = kibitz,
m = move,
r = roll,
s = say,
t = tell,
w = who,
wh = whisper
r = roll (special treatment, see above)
re = unknown command re (conflict between 'resign' and 'reject')
res = resign (no other command with that prefix)

Name completion

For most commands that need a player's name as an argument you only have to type the first few letters of a name. If you type:

tell ma Hi!

and the only player whose name starts with 'ma' is marvin, the server will do a tell marvin Hi! for you. If there is another user called 'mama' the server will complain that you should greet either marvin or mama. (Note that in this example t ma Hi! is even shorter and that this feature does not work for the last, message and ratings commands). The name completion will first try to find a name that matches case sensitive. If this doesn't work it will try to find a name that matches case insensitive.

Repeating the last command

If you want to repeat your last command just type !! (this is a Unix-geek thing, if you're wondering). This does not work for the shout, tell, say, kibitz and whisper commands. For the message command it only works if you used it without arguments to check if there are new messages for you.