ScotMesh RNS Network
Chat commands
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The commands for the ScotMesh chat. Send them in the RRC room or as a message to the LXMF group (625ad393ca4df62a1382f9d936322a0a). The reply goes only to you: over RRC it arrives as a notice, and over LXMF as a message from the group.
/help lists the commands where you are, and /help nick explains one.
Everyone
/help [command]
What it does: Lists the commands, or explains one.
/whoami
What it does: Shows your name, identity and settings, and where you are connected.
/nick Name
What it does: Takes a name. Your old one is freed.
/leave
What it does: Frees your name and leaves the LXMF group.
/who
What it does: Shows who is here, on RRC and in the LXMF group.
/history 20
What it does: Shows earlier messages, up to 100, at most one request every 15 seconds.
/topic
What it does: Shows the room topic.
LXMF group
/join [Name]
What it does: Joins the group, optionally with a name. With no name it uses the display name your app announces. You get the last 10 messages to start with.
/lxmf on
What it does: Gets every message. This is the default.
/lxmf off
What it does: Stops group messages. You keep your name and your place in the group.
/lxmf auto
What it does: Pauses group messages while you are in the room over RRC, and starts them again when you leave.
/lxmf mine on or off
What it does: Chooses whether you also get your own messages sent from RRC or the page.
/pause, /resume
What it does: The same as /lxmf off and /lxmf on.
/me waves
What it does: Sends an action: * Name waves.
The /lxmf settings also work from the RRC room. On the chat page they are under Your name & settings.
RRC rooms
Your RRC client sends joining and leaving itself. These are the hub's own room commands; <room> is the room name, such as scotmesh.
/join newroom
What it does: Joins a room, or creates it if nobody is in it. You become its founder.
/list
What it does: Lists registered rooms and their topics.
/who [room]
What it does: Shows who is in a room.
/topic <room> [text]
What it does: Shows the topic, or sets it (only operators can if the room is +t).
/register <room>
What it does: The founder keeps the room even when it is empty. It also sets +n and +t.
/unregister <room>
What it does: The founder undoes /register.
Room operators
The founder of a room and anyone they make an operator.
/op <room> Name, /deop
What it does: Makes someone an operator, or removes it.
/voice <room> Name, /devoice
What it does: Lets someone speak in a moderated (+m) room, or removes it.
/kick <room> Name
What it does: Removes someone from the room. They can come back.
/ban <room> add Name
What it does: Bans someone from the room. del lifts it and list shows the bans.
/invite <room> add Name
What it does: Invites someone to an invite-only or keyed room for 15 minutes.
/mode <room> +m
What it does: Sets a room mode. See below.
Over LXMF the room is always scotmesh, so leave it out: /kick Name, /ban add Name.
| Mode | Meaning |
| --- | --- |
| +i | Invite only. |
| +k key | A key is needed to join; -k removes it. |
| +m | Moderated: only operators and voiced people can speak. |
| +n | No messages from people not in the room. |
| +p | Private: left out of /list, and /who is refused. |
| +t | Only operators can change the topic. |
Hub operators
/kline add Name [reason]
What it does: Bans an identity from the whole hub and disconnects it everywhere. del lifts it and list shows the bans.
/release Name
What it does: Frees a name someone holds. They are told.
/stats
What it does: Shows the hub's counters.
Naming someone
Where a command takes a name, you can give:
• their name (lookalikes match, so rab finds Rab);
• their guest name, such as guest-2af3;
• six or more characters of their identity hash;
• the whole 32-character hash.
If several people match, the hub lists them and asks for a longer hash.
NomadNet
NomadNet's RRC screen handles slash commands itself. /help there shows NomadNet's own list, and /nick sets the name NomadNet sends. It passes only these to the hub:
/who /names /topic /mode /kick /ban /invite /op /deop /voice /devoice /register /unregister /kline /stats
For anything else (/whoami, /lxmf, /history, /leave to free your name), message the LXMF group, or use Your name & settings on the chat page. In NomadNet, /leave on the RRC screen leaves the room; it doesn't free your name.
MeshChatX passes every command to the hub.
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