Editing an message

[verbal monolith]

hi

[deft spoke]

https://discord.js.org/#/docs/discord.js/stable/class/Message?scrollTo=edit

[fluid temple]

^ @verbal monolith

[verbal monolith]

ty guys

[fluid temple]

No problem

[verbal monolith]

But how does it know which message? Probably a silly question

@fluid temple

[fluid temple]

Could you send a snippet of the code you are using for editing the message

[verbal monolith]

message.edit('This is my new content!')
  .then(msg => console.log(`Updated the content of a message to ${msg.content}`))
  .catch(console.error);   ```

[fluid temple]

Messages are indexed by ids, im not sure if that helps.

Could you elaborate your question?

[verbal monolith]

That helped

[fluid temple]

Thank you for asking

[verbal monolith]

Ehmmmm.. Why does this not work? @fluid temple 😄

  let id = message.id
  console.log(id)
  

})
await.sleep(5000)
id.edit('This is my new content!')
  .then(msg => console.log(`Updated the content of a message to ${msg.content}`))
  .catch(console.error);   ```

[fluid temple]

Alright, so firstly your bot has to send an message and then do .then(msg => {msg.edit()}) , right now there is no message to edit

Secondly, it's kind of with that but an message ID isn't an message object (which can be returned by handling the promise using .then)

[verbal monolith]

Can u give me an example? 😄

[fluid temple]

Yep!

So i'll show the whole require trace so you dont get confused

[verbal monolith]

ty

[fluid temple]

client.on('messageCreate', message => {
  if(message.author.bot) return
  message.reply('Example message').then(msg => {
    msg.edit(options)
  })
})```

@verbal monolith

[verbal monolith]

Thank you very much! It is nice of you

[fluid temple]

No problem

[verbal monolith]

But how can i make this work???

  if(message.author.bot) return
  message.reply('Example message').then(msg => {
    setTimeout(10)
    msg.edit('e')
  })
})   ```

[fluid temple]

client.on('messageCreate', message => {
  if(message.author.bot) return
  message.reply('Example message').then(msg => {
    setTimeout(function(){msg.edit(e)}, 10)
  })
})   ```

[verbal monolith]

ty