Interact Command Tip

[BlackSpectre]

It took me years dealing with the finickiness of the /interact command to come up with a way to make it work more consistently and smoothly. The problem has been that it often doesn't affect whatever you want to interact with even though your character is the right distance away from what you want to interact with and facing the correct direction. So I've been double-clicking the X key (the key I bound the command to) all this time to get it to work... but I didn't have to.

 

The solution is to make a "toggle bind". That's a bind that has the "+" appended to the beginning of the bind string like so:

 

/bind X "+$$interact"

 

The plus prefix forces the command to execute on key press AND again on key release. Now, instead of double-clicking, all I have to do is tap the key once and it works. Finally!

 

I guess I was just willing to deal with the annoyance until tonight when I finally got fed up with it and asked myself "OK, what can I do about this /interact problem?" LOL