.. _plugin-News:

Documentation for the News plugin for Supybot
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Purpose
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A module to allow each channel to have "news".  News items may have expiration
dates.
It was partially inspired by the news system used on #debian's bot.

Usage
-----

This plugin provides a means of maintaining News for a channel.

.. _commands-News:

Commands
--------

.. _command-news-add:

``add [<channel>] <expires> <subject>: <text>``
  Adds a given news item of <text> to a channel with the given <subject>. If <expires> isn't 0, that news item will expire <expires> seconds from now. <channel> is only necessary if the message isn't sent in the channel itself.

.. _command-news-change:

``change [<channel>] <id> <regexp>``
  Changes the news item with <id> from <channel> according to the regular expression <regexp>. <regexp> should be of the form s/text/replacement/flags. <channel> is only necessary if the message isn't sent on the channel itself.

.. _command-news-news:

``news [<channel>] [<id>]``
  Display the news items for <channel> in the format of '(#id) subject'. If <id> is given, retrieve only that news item; otherwise retrieve all news items. <channel> is only necessary if the message isn't sent in the channel itself.

.. _command-news-old:

``old [<channel>] [<id>]``
  Returns the old news item for <channel> with <id>. If no number is given, returns all the old news items in reverse order. <channel> is only necessary if the message isn't sent in the channel itself.

.. _command-news-remove:

``remove [<channel>] <id>``
  Removes the news item with <id> from <channel>. <channel> is only necessary if the message isn't sent in the channel itself.

.. _conf-News:

Configuration
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.. _conf-supybot.plugins.News.public:


supybot.plugins.News.public
  This config variable defaults to "True", is not network-specific, and is not channel-specific.

  Determines whether this plugin is publicly visible.

