Selvvir is an IRC bot for the #css channel on freenode. It replaces the previous bot, rivvles, created by Colin Aarts (aka riven or lilmonkey on freenode) which the author still provides but chose to remove from #css.
Originally, Selvvir started as an attempt to reverse engineer rivvles (for no real reason). Shortly after its inception, the source code powering rivvles was made available on github as irc-js-bot. rivvles is presumably a custom configured irc-js-bot.
Selvvir is not exactly the cleanest code, and as such is closed-source. If you want Selvvir-like functionality, see the irc-js-bot project github repository and run that instead. irc-js-bot does not offer the caniuse.com functionality of Selvvir, but it is not hard to add.
Why neon green? rivvles' favorite color was hotpink. Ask Selvvir about `hotpink.
Commands are prefixed with the ` (backtick) character to indicate to Selvvir it is being addressed:
`somefactoid
Anything not recognized as an explicit command is assumed to be a factoid. Factoids can have spaces.
The @ character can be used to address a command's response or factoid output to another user: `caniuse flex @ username
However, all errors are reported back as notices to the original requestor and not the addressed user. Commands with longer output also send it as a notice, so as not to spam the channel.
Some commands have flags to modify their response. Those can be placed after the command name:
`canuse/p flex
Not all commands offer flags, and more than one flag can be used together in any order: `caniuse/np flex
Flags a command does not recognize will be ignored.
In addition to the flags below, each command has a flag causing it to list out information about it and its flags instead of returning its
normal response. This page is built with the same information listed there.`caniuse/?
Add or update a factoid
(Admin only)
| r | regexp: enables regexp mode; <content> must be a sed-style (s///) substitution literal, conforming to Java regular expression syntax |
| a | alias: alias mode; create an alias to an existing factoid: <content> becomes a factoid name instead |
| ! | force: this flag must be set to overwrite an existing factoid; otherwise a warning will be issued |
Delete a factoid
(Admin only)
| ! | force: enables deletion of factoids that have aliases leading to it; will also delete all aliases |
Display a list of special commands I support
| v | verbose: also lists the description for each command |
Display information about a factoid
Search the factoids store
| o | original: only search 'original' factoids; that is, factoids that are not aliases |
| a | aliases: only search factoid aliases |
| n | names: only search factoid names |
| c | content: only search factoid content |
Check a resource with the W3C markup and CSS validators.
Display a list of my admins.
Turn a (long) URL into a short one using « goo.gl »
Search caniuse.com's browser feature support data.
| e | exact: only returns the feature whose name exactly matches the given text |
| d | desktop: only returns desktop browser results |
| m | mobile: only return mobile browser results |
| n | near: include near-future release versions |
| a | partials: count partial support as yes |
| p | prefixed: count prefixed support as no |