Im not entirely sure how to title this, so instead, here's a picture of a baboon

I just bought a scripted lightsaber from someone's store, however the commands to use it are chat commands.

For example, whereas i'm used to just typing "/1 something on" this thing requires me to type "something on".

Obviously i end up spamming whatever sim i'm in if I intend to have the thing active.
The lightsaber itself is no copy/no mod.

Is there anything I can do my end to use the commands without spamming or is it literally a case of b1tch at the thing's original author?

The '/1' is for the channel and I think the command is '-ls on' so '/1 -ls on' should do it. It's based off a lightsaber script I made in beta. Last I remember those are the commands.

No, The help file gives the command as 'ma on' or 'ma off' etc etc.

Does an item require special coding to gain a /channel or is it automatic. That's the question.

It requires a very small bit of coding.

Right, so basically I need to seek out the original author and beg him to alter the item slightly.
Ok, thanks

Oh sorry, i'll go off on a tagent a little.

The '/1' is you are setting the channel is which you are speaking. By default if you don't put anything you are speaking in channel 0, the public channel, where everyone can hear. When you set '/1 blah', I just said 'blah' in channel 1 and set your channel to 1. You can set channels all the way up to like 2 billion or something. (llPow(2,31) I think). If you want to repeat stuff in the 'set' channel all you need to do is '// blah' and you'll say 'blah' in th e channel you previously set, in this case it's #1. If you just want to speak in general/public chat just type stuff normally without '//' or '/[number]'.

Please note these channels are in no way secure. Anyone with a script can be snooping on these channels. Although highly against the TOS (it will get you banned) i'm still sure some people do it.

To set an item to listen on that channel all you need to do is..

state_entry() {
 llListen(1,"","","");
}
listen(integer channel, string name, key id, string message) {
  llOwnerSay(message);
}

Thanks
At least now I can tell the author exactly how to change his code. A few lines doesn't seem that difficult

[insert flame about creators that insist on public whispers and listens instead of private/1 "because customers prefer it that way"]

Yeah, dicks.

(See what I did there?)

[insert flame about creators that insist on using perpetually open listeners and whispers instead of menu-driven, time-limited listeners and llOwnerSay because it takes slightly more work to do]