Help with custom quickslots

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Hey!

Last night I did some first time ever experiementing with Lua and so far I've done a script that prints "Hello world" every 5 minutes (now how cool it that? ). Now I would want it to do an emote, but I'm struggling with the lack of help from LuaDocumentation, other plugins that does that same kind of a thing or anywhere else in the web. Do you have to use custom quickslots made with Lua, aliases or can you just enter /emote somewhere?

Question goes: is that kind of a system possible?

I found this comment from another thread:

Originally Posted by Chiran

I guess the only way to write to chat is to make quickslot, then set a command alias for it in Lua. The user has to click it himself though for the text to be pasted into chat.

-Chiran

So must you click the quickslot to make it fire or can you make the code fire the quickslot for you?