Question to Automate

[Tynictansol]

Hey there everyone, I play an online roleplaying game that requires a command "//roll-dice1-sides100" to roll dice for certain aspects of the game. I tried the dice plugin for Pidgin, but it doesn't really do what I am looking for. it shortens the typing, but ideally I'd like to either have a hotkey to simply hit that will input the line, or maybe a graphical button to click. This may be a moot point, as I can copy/paste the line well enough, but if I'm trying to move other pieces of information around by copying and pasting, it complicates what I have to do. In any event, I'm curious as to what sort of solutions there are out there for pidgin/ubuntu as a whole, as since I've switched to this OS, the possibilites seem nearly endless as to what could be done to simplify tasks. Thanks in advance for any advice.

tyler

[raja]

As you said, there are may ways to do it.
You can set up the command in gconf and then bind a key to it - you have your keyboard shortcut.
Another option is to set up a bash alias - then you can type maybe 'roll' instead of the whole command.