Writing and using your first alias
Open up your autoexec.cfg in notepad and type up the following line:
alias hello "say Hello World!; wait; wait; kill; wait; wait; say_team Goodbye World!"

Now, lets explain what everything does:

alias hello
Creates an alias named hello.

"say Hello World!;
The quotation starts the input. The first command is say, which will say anything up to the delimiter, which is the semi-colon (;). In this case, the player would publicly say 'Hello World!'.

wait; wait;
This pauses the script for two ticks (ticks vary from computer speed and internet connection).

kill;
This will make the player commit suicide.

wait; wait;
This pauses the script again for two ticks.

say_team Goodbye World!"
This says to your team (your dead teammates at least) 'Goodbye World!'. You'll notice that " acts as the delimiter, but this is only for the last command in your alias.

Now, save and close the autoexec.cfg and load up Counter-Strike.

Either join a public game, or create your own game. In game press the title key (` or ~, above your tab, below your escape key). What comes down is called the console.

Anyhow, this is the console. Anything you put into a cfg file you can enter here, and visa-versa (note, only certain client variables and binds are saved, aliases are not save when you enter them into the console or your config.cfg). So go ahead and type the following into the console:

bind "k" "hello"
(note: if you have k bound to something important, change it to any key of your choice).

Now, press K.
Hooray! Your first alias worked, you said Hello World!, killed yourself, and remarked Goodbye World! to your dead teammates.
 

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