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A text command, beginning with a "/". Generally found in [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]]s, where they are entered into the chatbox and the "/" is used to distinguish them from ordinary chat.
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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Many slash commands are chat commands, especially [[Emote Command|emote commands]]. They are also frequently used for pet, group and guild commands.
The use of a slash to indicate a special command is inherited from many IRC (Internet Relay Chat) clients. Some games, in fact, use a customized version of IRC for their chat windows, justifying the use of slash commands.
A variant is exclamation mark commands, which are sent to others like ordinary messages, but interpreted as commands by bots.
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