commands: Give a brief mnemonic of variable name annotations

Rosuav · Jun 23, 2023 · 894ee3d · 894ee3d
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commit 894ee3d
Showing 1 changed file with 8 additions and 4 deletions.
diff --git a/httpstatic/command_gui.js b/httpstatic/command_gui.js
@@ -375,23 +375,27 @@ const types = {
 		color: "#dd7777", label: el => `Add ${el.message} to $${el.target}$`,
 		params: [{attr: "dest", values: "/set"}, {attr: "destcfg", values: "add"},
 			{attr: "target", label: "Variable name"}, {attr: "message", label: "Increment by"}],
-		typedesc: "Update a variable. Can be accessed as $varname$ in this or any other command.",
+		typedesc: ["Update a variable. Can be accessed as $varname$ in this or any other command.", BR(),
+			"Use ", CODE("*varname"), " for a per-user variable, and/or ", CODE("varname?"), " for ephemeral."],
 	},
 	incr_variable_complex: {
 		color: "#dd7777", children: ["message"], label: el => `Add onto $${el.target}$`,
 		params: [{attr: "dest", values: "/set"}, {attr: "destcfg", values: "add"},
 			{attr: "target", label: "Variable name"},],
-		typedesc: "Capture message as a variable update. Can be accessed as $varname$ in this or any other command.",
+		typedesc: ["Capture message as a variable update. Can be accessed as $varname$ in this or any other command.", BR(),
+			"Use ", CODE("*varname"), " for a per-user variable, and/or ", CODE("varname?"), " for ephemeral."],
 	},
 	set_variable: {
 		color: "#dd7777", label: el => el.message ? `Set $${el.target}$ to ${el.message}` : `Empty out $${el.target}$`,
 		params: [{attr: "dest", values: "/set"}, {attr: "target", label: "Variable name"}, {attr: "message", label: "New value"}],
-		typedesc: "Change a variable. Can be accessed as $varname$ in this or any other command.",
+		typedesc: ["Change a variable. Can be accessed as $varname$ in this or any other command.", BR(),
+			"Use ", CODE("*varname"), " for a per-user variable, and/or ", CODE("varname?"), " for ephemeral."],
 	},
 	set_variable_complex: {
 		color: "#dd7777", children: ["message"], label: el => `Change variable $${el.target}$`,
 		params: [{attr: "dest", values: "/set"}, {attr: "target", label: "Variable name"},],
-		typedesc: "Capture message into a variable. Can be accessed as $varname$ in this or any other command.",
+		typedesc: ["Capture message into a variable. Can be accessed as $varname$ in this or any other command.", BR(),
+			"Use ", CODE("*varname"), " for a per-user variable, and/or ", CODE("varname?"), " for ephemeral."],
 	},
 	...builtin_types(),
 	handle_errors: {