[Mod] Private Messages with @ (rewritten!) [atchat]

[orwell]

I've become frustrated of typing /msg player text every time I wanted to send a PM.
So I took redsand, modified and shortened it beyond recognition and this was the result.
Since Minetest now supports turning off the default <name> message output, I've rewritten it a bit

Send private message to player:
@player text
or
@player:text
will result in the following output:
at you: (@player) text
at target: (yourname) text
(but no other players will receive that message)
This is equivalent to /msg player text

Send private message to multiple players:
@player1,player2 text
or
@player1,player2:text
will result in the following output:
at you: (@player1,player2) text
at targets: (yourname) text
(but no other players will receive that message)
This is equivalent to /msg player1 text and /msg player2 text

Send a message to the player(s) you sent the last message to:
@ text
will result in the following output:
at you: (@player) text
at target: (yourname) text
(but no other players will receive that message)
This is equivalent to /msg <the last player you wrote to> text

Hints:

• do NOT write spaces behind commas when using @player1,player2,...,playerN text
• the round brackets tell that only a bunch of players received that message.
• in comparison to version 1.0, you can no longer see the other receivers of a message.

This mod is, although modified beyond recognition, based on [redsand].

License: see LICENSE.txt in mod folder
Mod dependencies: none

Bugs: Where should there be bugs? This mod consists of one function and one global table!
Suggestions (and bugs) can be posted into this thread.

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[Lejo]

Very nice idea to use the @.

[linushsao]

+1

[orwell]

Mod rewritten, see first post