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| author |  Matteo Bertucci <[email protected]> | 2021-10-03 18:47:42 +0200 |
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| committer |  GitHub <[email protected]> | 2021-10-03 18:47:42 +0200 |
| commit | d1bbfaf459b33b10e9fde4baa9e382317551c071 (patch) | |
| tree | 032b395615b2fcf85332a0b30a06ecf81542b797 | |
| parent | Merge pull request #785 from PythonTryHard/main (diff) | |
| parent | Merge branch 'main' into better-bookmark-error-message (diff) | |
Merge pull request #890 from python-discord/better-bookmark-error-message
Give the bookmark command a better error message
| -rw-r--r-- | bot/exts/utilities/bookmark.py | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/bot/exts/utilities/bookmark.py b/bot/exts/utilities/bookmark.py index 39d65168..a11c366b 100644 --- a/bot/exts/utilities/bookmark.py +++ b/bot/exts/utilities/bookmark.py @@ -98,7 +98,13 @@ class Bookmark(commands.Cog): """Send the author a link to `target_message` via DMs.""" if not target_message: if not ctx.message.reference: - raise commands.UserInputError("You must either provide a valid message to bookmark, or reply to one.") + raise commands.UserInputError( + "You must either provide a valid message to bookmark, or reply to one." + "\n\nThe lookup strategy for a message is as follows (in order):" + "\n1. Lookup by '{channel ID}-{message ID}' (retrieved by shift-clicking on 'Copy ID')" + "\n2. Lookup by message ID (the message **must** have been sent after the bot last started)" + "\n3. Lookup by message URL" + ) target_message = ctx.message.reference.resolved # Prevent users from bookmarking a message in a channel they don't have access to |