Universal command prefix

[samitheberber]

It would be nice if commands doesn't determine !command, but only command. Then command parser could have custom prefix, which would be ! by default.

Benefits from this would be that if you are running multiple instances of Simo in same channel, for example simobot and simobot-dev (contains next version of Simo). With this simobot would have prefix !, which is the default, and then simobot-dev could have !varjo, which will provide next level feature of same command, but which isn't yet released.

With this modification, feature developers doesn't need to think if they need to add !varjo in their command (I have noticed this method has been used in few features).

Configuration options could be for example environment variable, command line argument or configuration file. I have just read a small portion of the code considering this matter so I don't know which is in use and which should be used.

This should need just a little bit coding for the parser, cleaning the features and the largest part is the configuration part.

[Tsarpf]

I think @kenkku had some updates in mind regarding the bot's core. If I understood correctly he's planning on releasing something today? Also see https://github.com/Tsarpf/SimoBotPython/blob/master/helpers/commandparser.py which is not yet in use anywhere, but I guess will be.

[kenkku]

I am rewriting the bot's basic functions to facilitate easier development of features. It should be ready very soon, you are free to implement this feature then, it should be easy.

[kenkku]

It might actually be better to implement this in commandparser, which I plan to use heavily in the core. I expect no changes to its external API, although I have a few unmerged changes on the way.

[samitheberber]

Okay, I thought that commandparser.py was already in use, but yes it might be the correct place to add this. I'm pretty much afk this week, so this issue was just reminder and if someone wants implement it, feel free :)