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== Customising Heys == | == Customising Heys == | ||
Heys can be configured in many different ways. | |||
=== Borders === | |||
One of the most common features of hey that Redbrick users customise is the appearance of the border around the hey. The default border when a user sends a hey looks like this: | |||
Message from undone@murphy on pts/489 at [ Fri 15/Dec/2006 19:32:12 GMT ] ... | |||
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo | |||
o This is what the default hey border looks like. o | |||
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo | |||
EOF | |||
You can change this by adding the '-b' option when sending a hey. After the -b, you enter 9 characters in quotation marks that determine which characters go where. The So for example if you were to use it like this: | |||
undone@murphy (~) -> hey -b "123456789" phaxx | |||
This is a test. | |||
You'll see this: | |||
6222222222222222227 | |||
5 This is a test. 4 | |||
8333333333333333339 | |||
Each of the numbers the in the string corresponds to a different area of your border as follows: | |||
1 = default | |||
2 = top | |||
3 = bottom | |||
4 = right | |||
5 = left | |||
6 = top left | |||
7 = top right | |||
8 = bottom left | |||
9 = bottom right | |||
So if you try something like this: | |||
undone@murphy (~) -> hey -b "o--||<><>" receive | |||
This is also a test. | |||
you'll get a hey border like this: | |||
<----------------------> | |||
| This is also a test. | | |||
<----------------------> | |||
You can send heys to yourself, so try experimenting with different characters in each position. | |||
=== Title and footer === | |||
You can add a title and a footer to a hey using the -t and -o options when heying someone. | |||
undone@murphy (~) -> hey -t "title" -o "footer" revenant | |||
Hey Sean, look at my title and footer! | |||
creates a message like this: | |||
-================ title =================- | |||
| Hey Sean, look at my title and footer! | | |||
-================ footer ================- | |||
=== Other options === | |||
There are a few other options you can play around with too, here's a list: | |||
-w <wrap> Specifies what column to wrap words at. | |||
-t <title> Specifies the title string for the message. | |||
-o <title> Specifies the footer string for the message. | |||
-b <borderstr> Specifies the message's border. | |||
-s <successmsg> Specifies message to print on success. | |||
-e <eofstring> Specifies an alternative EOF string. | |||
-f <filename> Spceifies a file of users to hey. | |||
-p <prompt> Specifies the prompt string. | |||
-n <maxnames> Specifies the maximum number of names prompted. | |||
-m Ignore potentially annoying mesg n warnings. | |||
-c Shows the credits. | |||
-h Shows this listing. | |||
Here is an example of a hey syntax using some of these parameters. | Here is an example of a hey syntax using some of these parameters. | ||
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Most of these extra options are very self explanatory and are elaborated upon by typing man hey into your terminal | Most of these extra options are very self explanatory and are elaborated upon by typing man hey into your terminal | ||
Shell Settings | Shell Settings | ||