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1	[[JustForFun/DescribeTopicHere /describe SlashCommand here]]
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3	A text command, beginning with a "/". Generally found in {{MMORPG}}s, where they are entered into the chatbox and the "/" is used to distinguish them from ordinary chat.
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5	Slash commands allow a wide variety of operations, not limited by what can be keymapped. Speaking of, slash commands can generally be included in keymappable macros; in fact, the command to ''make'' a macro can be a slash command.
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7	Many slash commands are chat commands, especially {{emote command}}s. They are also frequently used for pet, group and guild commands.
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9	The use of a slash to indicate a special command is inherited from Internet Relay Chat. Some games, in fact, use a customized version of IRC for their chat windows, justifying the use of slash commands.
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11	A variant is exclamation mark commands, which are sent to others like ordinary messages, but interpreted as commands by bots.
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13	[[{{Shipping}} Not what a person uses to get their favorite characters to hook up.]]
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16	!!Examples:
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20	[[folder:Video Game Examples]]
21	* ''VideoGame/BattleForWesnoth'' is one of the least clunky pieces of open source software, but text commands (entered through the colon) are still the only interface for shuffling people around in multiplayer games.
22	* ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' uses an obvious IRC descendant for its chat window.
23	* In ''VideoGame/EverQuest'' and ''VideoGame/EverQuestII'', "/who all bard 30 40" lists all of the Bard player characters between level 30 and level 40 who are currently online on the server.
24	** /Pizza will also take you to the pizza hut website to order a 'za online.
25	* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'' can be patched to play online. Most servers have hundreds of commands, and every one is different, so switching is always an exercise in frustration.
26	* ''VideoGame/EverybodyEdits'' has several commands, for world management, chat, and reporting rule-breaking. Later updates would make commands somewhat unnecessary, as command functions would be available as more user-friendly GUI in the user list and level settings menu.
27	* ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' [[https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Commands has plenty, with widely varying capabilities]]. For single-player, they are enabled by default in creative mode, enabled or disabled at world creation in survival mode, and force-disabled in hardcore. Servers have them enabled for all gamemodes, and server plugins can take them [[ExaggeratedTrope Up to Eleven]] with commands that remove all entities, spawn things like spheres, or make new worlds.
28	* ''VideoGame/NetHack'' has a number of these, including naming items, dipping items in liquids, rubbing items, invoking items, and accessing containers which are lying on the ground. They're accessed through the pound sign ('#') rather than the slash key.
29	* ''Quake II'', and later games under the quake engine, use these too. With ''Quake III'', some bots will react to the player saying a command without the preceding slash.
30	* The original ''[[VideoGame/TeamFortressClassic Team Fortress]]'' (a mod for ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'') used slash commands to perform certain actions such as deploying a turret. This became annoying for new players, as they had to find a large number of keys to "bind" to each command, and had to edit configuration files and go through other contortions to get the changes to stick. Many early FPS mods--even into the ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'' era--suffered similar problems.
31	* Server-side mods for ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', like [=SourceMod=], when installed and enabled on a server, also allow the player to do specific actions by typing slash commands on the chatbox, like /rtd or /rtv.
32	*** Because of this, [=TF2=]'s Medieval Mode auto-parser ignores text beginning with '!' or '/' (so [=SourceMod=] commands aren't modified).
33	** Slash commands are still common ways to interact with an FPS's [[MasterConsole command console]] on the PC. Some engines make the slash optional; some engines automatically broadcast anything typed in the console without a slash. Differentiating between these engines is an [[HilarityEnsues exercise in frustration]].
34	* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' has [[http://www.wowpedia.org/List_of_slash_commands a great many of these]].
35	** The players also like to mock these in the chat channels. For example. Party A makes a comment against Party B, intended to be disparaging, insulting, riling, or otherwise offensive. Party B writes /wrists, which implies that he slits his wrists. But it's usually done sarcastically.
36	** One joke video said that a secret cheat was /enable [[spoiler:JustForFun/{{Rickroll}}]].
37	** One of their annual AprilFoolsDay jokes had Blizzard claiming that they were instituting a /panda command which, like ''Everquest'''s /pizza command, would let you order Panda Express delivery. Except rather than taking you to PE's website, it would summon a little in-game panda avatar who would take your order.
38	* In the ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament'' series of games everything typed in the console, which doubles as the text chat, is treated as a command. Only lines which start with a chat ("say", "teamsay") command are then broadcasted. Also, Every function in the game engine has a corresponding command, pressing any key has the effect of typing a console command without showing it in the console.
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41	[[folder:Non-Video Game Examples]]
42	* Several text-based chat rooms use slash commands to action posts, choose font colors, and create new public or private rooms.
43	* ''Roleplay/DestroyTheGodmodder'' supposedly takes place in Minecraft, and so newbies are prone to using these.
44	** It makes for a great way to tell who hasn't read the rules though. It never works and only people who skip the opening rules can't figure it out.
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