[TF2] Cannot open chat windows via aliases

[YoshiRulz]

Title. To reproduce:

bind J say
alias test_alias "say"
bind K test_alias

...then close the console and try each. The expected behaviour is that, like the rest of the console commands, say opens the chat even from inside aliases.

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I'm running TF2 build 4620606 on Manjaro 17.1.11, though as noted in a later comment this also affects Windows builds.

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[YoshiRulz]

I've just had a friend reproduce this on their Windows 10 machine.

Also, may I suggest that this be fixed by opening the chat window with separate commands, perhaps open_chatbox_global, open_chatbox_team, and open_chatbox_party?

[YoshiRulz]

edit: their now deleted comment was something like "put quotes around the first arg of bind"

@1157 You've misunderstood me. I'm not trying to bind typing something in chat, alias test_alias "say Hello, world!"; bind K test_alias for example. That works fine. I'm trying to open the chat window in the same way pressing Y would with the default keybinds. Also, the key doesn't "need's to be in quote's" when using bind, as far as I can tell none of them contain spaces anyway.

That said, I went ahead and downloaded a bunch of games, and I can now confirm that this bug is reproducible on the following:

• HL2:DM build 4630212
• HLDM:S build 4630212
• Portal 2 build 15:40:42 Mar 1 2018 (or is it simply 2.0.0.1? either way this was in multiplayer, say has no effect in singleplayer)
• L4D2 build 10:07:38 Jun 21 2017 (or 2.1.5.1?)

This was all done on the same borrowed Win10 machine. I don't own CS:S or DoD:S so I can't say whether the version of Source they use is affected.

[1157]

Good luck.