"Giving Orders" wiki page retrofitted like springsettings?

"Giving Orders" wiki page retrofitted like springsettings?

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SinbadEV
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"Giving Orders" wiki page retrofitted like springsettings?

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http://springrts.com/wiki/Balanced_Anni ... ing_Orders is prettty old and full of game specific details that may or may not be outdated.

When "we" made this page, it was meant as part of an exhaustive reference of "How to Play Spring" which isn't really a thing anymore.

I feel like something LIKE it would still be useful... perhapse a page like http://springrts.com/wiki/Springsettings.cfg that is tied to https://github.com/spring/spring/blob/d ... ?source=cc would do better in meeting it's original purpose.

Namely that there be somewhere that maps human readable names and usage instructions to bindable commands (showing defaults) that can be extracted automatically to the wiki... possibly implemented in a way that would allow a specific game (like BA) to template in the text that is appropriate to their game along side any custom gameplay instructions.
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Re: "Giving Orders" wiki page retrofitted like springsetting

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The wiki is open to editing by anyone, you can already do it.
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Re: "Giving Orders" wiki page retrofitted like springsetting

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Silentwings wrote:The wiki is open to editing by anyone, you can already do it.
Either your reading comprehension is faulty or you misunderstand how the new springsettings page works.

I don't really know exactly how it works except that there is a chunk of source code that maps settings to descriptions and then a shell script that builds the wiki page automatically... I am suggesting a similar relationship be created to automagically create a command reference.
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Re: "Giving Orders" wiki page retrofitted like springsetting

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+1 for automatic command reference

+1 for nuking the BA pages... Anyone still actually working on transferring that content to BA site?
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Re: "Giving Orders" wiki page retrofitted like springsetting

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Either your reading comprehension is faulty or you misunderstand how the new springsettings page works.
Github & pull request.
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Re: "Giving Orders" wiki page retrofitted like springsetting

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Silentwings wrote:
Either your reading comprehension is faulty or you misunderstand how the new springsettings page works.
Github & pull request.
It would be a dangerous change to a sensitive part of the code... and I ain't coded no C++ for years... I was hoping that the model used on the other page could be replicated by someone who knew how it worked.

But yes, I'm aware of how open source works.
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